Ptolemy V

Ptolemy V (210?-181 bc), called Ptolemy Epiphanes (“illustrious”), king of Egypt (205-181 bc), grandson of Ptolemy II Euergetes. At the beginning of his reign, Antiochus III of Syria and Philip V of Macedonia agreed to divide the foreign possessions of Egypt between them, and Egypt was greatly weakened. The official coronation of Ptolemy V was held in 197 bc; it was the occasion on which the Egyptian priesthood published the decree that forms the trilingual inscription on the Rosetta Stone. In 193 bc Ptolemy married the Seleucid princess Cleopatra I.