Hieroglyphic name:
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| Hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy XV |
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| Ptolemy XV |
Ptolemy XV Caesarion was the son of Cleopatra VII and Julius Caesar, Ptolemy XV got his reign in 44 B.C.E. Although he was only a child, he was set up to the throne to conserve him.
Ptolemy XIV, who had been coruler with Cleopatra VII, had been slain to make room for him.
Named Caesarion, his throne name stood for Heir of the Living God, the Chosen One of
Ptah, Living
the Rule of Re, the Living Image of
Amun. He was described with his mother on the wall of the temple of
Dendereh as being extended to the gods. The Roman Senate in 42 B.C.E. shopped Ptolemy XV's peak to the throne. He discovered the doomed battle of Actium and the death of Cleopatra VII and
Marc Antony and then was dead by the Romans, reportedly a death set up by Augustus (Octavian) at the urgency of Aeries Didymos, Ptolemy XV's former tutor.
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