{"id":57897,"date":"2020-01-06T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/bust-of-ptolemy-of-mauritania-grandson-of-cleopatra-vii\/"},"modified":"2020-01-18T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:46:21","slug":"bust-of-ptolemy-of-mauritania-grandson-of-cleopatra-vii","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/bust-of-ptolemy-of-mauritania-grandson-of-cleopatra-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust of Ptolemy of Mauritania &#8211; grandson of Cleopatra VII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman bust of young Ptolemy of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/mauritania-in-roman-times\/\">Mauritania<\/a>, grandson of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cleopatra-vii\/\">Cleopatra VII<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/mark-antony\/\">Mark Antony<\/a>. The sculpture was made of bronze and dates to the 1st century CE. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ptolemy lived at the turn of the era and sat on the Moorish throne as the successor to his father &#8211; Juba &#8211; in 23-40 CE. In practice, Mauritania was a client state and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> made substantial profits from its treasury.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed in 40 CE, commissioned by the emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a>. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/swetoniusz\/\">Suetonius<\/a>, the Roman ruler ordered to kill Ptolemy for having &#8220;dared&#8221; show himself publicly in a more decorative coat than he himself.<\/p>\n<p>After Ptolemy\u2019s death, a rebellion occurred in Mauritania, which resulted in the division of the state. His kingdom, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a> joined to the Empire as a province of Mauritania, which later was divided by Claudius into two: <i>Mauritania Caesariensis<\/i> and <i>Mauritania Tingitana.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36923,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-57897","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/57897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/57897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=57897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}