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People: Myles Coverdale
Topic: Rashtrakutan-Cholan War of 940-72
Location: Reichenau Island Baden-Württemberg Germany

The twelve-year-old future king Ptolemy XI Alexander …

Years: 103BCE - 103BCE

The twelve-year-old future king Ptolemy XI Alexander II is sent, with substantial treasure, to the Aegean island of Cos for safekeeping during the war with the Seleucid kingdom conducted by his grandmother Queen Cleopatra III and his father, Ptolemy X Alexander.

His nine-year-old half-brother, a son of Ptolemy IX Soter II (the identity of his mother is not certain), accompanies him him.