Later Pliny the Elder wrote that Sostratus was the architect, which is disputed.
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The building was finished during the reign of his son, the second Ptolemy (Ptolemy II Philadelphus).
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After Alexander the Great died of a fever at age 32, the first Ptolemy (Ptolemy I Soter) announced himself king in 305 BC, and commissioned its construction shortly thereafter.
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