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

103 BCE

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.

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Cleopatra III View → Ptolemy IX Lathyros View → Ptolemy X Alexander View → Ptolemy XI Alexander II View →

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Greeks, Hellenistic View → Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom of View → Seleucid Empire View →

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People: Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Location: Ezhou Hubei (Hupei) China
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