The year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.

** Ptolemy II Philadelphos ( 284 BC – 246 BC ) and his wives Arsinoe I and Arsinoe II Philadelphos

* Apama II ( about c. 292 BC-sometime after 249 BC ), wife of Magas of Cyrene and mother of Berenice II, who is also known as Arsinoe

* Arsinoe II ( 316 BC – 270 BC ) of Egypt

Arsinoe II

A number of cities were founded during this time, e. g. Arsinoe that was founded between old and new Paphos by Ptolemy II.

* Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.

Euergetes (" Benefactor ") was the eldest son of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his first wife, Arsinoe I, and came to power in 246 BC upon the death of his father.

* Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt from 220 BC, daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II ( d. 204 BC )

* Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe, wife of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II Theos, supplanting his first wife, Laodice, whose children she has persuaded him to bar from the succession to the throne in favour of her own

The suffix " Philadelphoi " (" Brother-Loving ") consequently is added to the names of King Ptolemy II and Queen Arsinoe II.

* Arsinoe II, Queen of Thrace and later co-ruler of Egypt with her brother and husband Ptolemy II of Egypt ( d. 270 BC )

* Arsinoe, daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, marries Ptolemy II of Egypt as part of the alliance between Thrace and Egypt against Seleucus.

His mother was Arsinoe of Macedon, and, while his father is unknown, ancient sources variously describe him either as the son of Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman, or as an illegitimate son of Philip II of Macedon ( which, if true would have made Ptolemy the half-brother of Alexander ).

Berenice bore Ptolemy I: two daughters Arsinoe II, Philotera and a son Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

When Arsinoe IV, Egypt's former queen, was paraded in chains, the spectators admired her dignified bearing and were moved to pity.

** Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt, sister and wife of the King Ptolemy IV ( assassinated ) ( b. c. 246 BC )

* Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt, sister and wife of the King Ptolemy IV ( assassinated ) ( b. c. 246 BC )

The former queen, Arsinoe I, is banished to Coptos, a city of Upper Egypt near the Wadi Hammamat, while her rival adopts her children.

** Arsinoe ( a memoir of queen Arsinoe ; lost ; quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae )

Among his maternal aunts were queen Arsinoe II of Egypt and among his maternal uncles were pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Macedonian King Ptolemy Keraunos ( Keraunos was Ptolemais ’ full blooded brother ).

* Arsinoe, probable mother of Lysimachus or his first wife Nicaea of Macedon, whom Arsinoe I is named after

* The Egyptian King Ptolemy II's first wife, Arsinoe I ( daughter of the late King Lysimachus of Thrace ) is accused, probably at instigation of Ptolemy II's sister ( who also has the name Arsinoe ), of plotting his murder and is exiled by the King.

* Following the Battle of Corupedium, Lysimachus ' widow, Arsinoe, flees to Cassandrea, a city in northern Greece, where she marries her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos.

* Lysimachus ' wife, Arsinoe, being keen to gain the succession to the kingdom of Thrace for her sons in preference to Agathocles ( the eldest son of Lysimachus ), intrigues against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos.

Their children were: Ptolemy IV Philopator, Magas, Lysimachus, Alexander, Arsinoe III and Berenice.

* Philip ( son of Lysimachus ), one of the sons of Lysimachus from his wife Arsinoe II

His half-sister, Arsinoe, later to be named Arsinoe II of Egypt, was wife of Lysimachus.

To stabilize his throne, Ptolemy asked his half-sister Arsinoe, the widow of Lysimachus, to marry him.

Arsinoe I was named in honor of an unnamed grandmother, who may have been the mother of Lysimachus or the mother of Nicaea whose both names of these women are unknown.

Arsinoe I bore Ptolemy II three children ; two sons: Ptolemy III Euergetes, Lysimachus of Egypt and a daughter called Berenice.

At an unknown date between after 279 BC-274 / 3 BC, a sister of Ptolemy II called Arsinoe II arrived in Egypt, who was the last wife of Lysimachus and had fled from her half-brother-husband Ptolemy Keraunos.

Lysimachus ( in Greek Λυσιμαχoς ; lived 3rd century BC ) was a son of king Ptolemy Philadelphus ( 283 – 246 BC ) by Arsinoe, the daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace.

* The Egyptian boy king, Ptolemy V, is encouraged by a mob clamouring for revenge against the murderers of his mother Arsinoe III to agree to Agathocles being killed.

* Arsinoe or Alphesiboea, daughter of Phegeus, king of Psophis, and wife of Alcmaeon

* The late Egyptian King Ptolemy IV's clique of favourites, led by Sosibius, Ptolemy's chief minister, keeps Ptolemy's death a secret, fearing retribution from the new king Ptolemy V's mother, Queen Arsinoe III.

They arrange for the murder of Arsinoe, and then the five-year-old king is officially elevated to the throne with Sosibius as his guardian.

Phegeus was a Greek mythological king who offered succor and his daughter, Arsinoe ( named Alphesiboea in some versions ), to Alcmaeon, who was fleeing from the Erinyes.

The stele calls Arsinoe I the ‘ king ’ s wife ’, but her name is not enclosed in the royal Cartouche, as it is customary for an Egyptian Queen.

He married Arsinoe, a concubine of Philip II, king of Macedon, who was said to have been pregnant at the time of their marriage, on which account it is told that the Macedonians generally looked upon Ptolemy as in reality the son of Philip ; but it is possible that this is a later myth fabricated to glorify the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Arsinoe of Macedonia ( Greek: ; lived 4th century BC ) was the mother of Ptolemy I Soter ( 323 BC – 283 BC ), king of Egypt.