About 1,000 later, the chief priest of Min, Harma'kheru, added depictions of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
"It was one of a number of towns established in the Arsinoite nome under Ptolemy II Philadelphus as part of a scheme to settle Greek mercenaries among the indigenous Egyptians and to exploit the potential fertile Fayum basin".
The building was finished during the reign of his son, the second Ptolemy (Ptolemy II Philadelphus).
Ptolemy | Ptolemy I Soter | Ptolemy III Euergetes | Ptolemy IV Philopator | Ptolemy II Philadelphus | Ptolemy XII Auletes | Ptolemy V Epiphanes | Ptolemy of Mauretania | Ptolemy of Cyprus | Ptolemy II of Tusculum | Ptolemy Apion | Philip I Philadelphus | Philadelphus coronarius | Philadelphus | Geography (Ptolemy) | Ptolemy X Alexander I | Ptolemy (name) | Ptolemy Keraunos | Ptolemy I of Tusculum | Ptolemy-el-Garib | Ptolemy Dean | Philadelphus microphyllus | Barry Ptolemy |
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).
In 312 BC, it was conquered by Ptolemy I and the kingdom was abolished until its reconquest by Ptolemy II Philadelphus who renamed the city after his sister and wife.