Stele #6: Pergamon

[Hax]

But was the Ptolemaic dynasty refered to as "Egypt" then?

[MeinPanzer]

I know of some non-royal sources that refer to the Ptolemies as the kings of Egypt, but not official sources. The Ptolemies had their own very complex system of royal titulature and offhand I can't think of any all-encompassing official title for the Ptolemaic state. Paullus can surely shed much more light on that matter than I can.

[General Appo]

But what the hell did the man of the street call them? I doubt he used those very complex systems of royal titulature, probably consisting of 40 different titles or something. Did the ordinary Roman say "did ya hear, the Syrians got their asses kicked by the Egyptians at some place called Raphia."
I know it´s next to impossible to find out about these things, but still.

[MeinPanzer]

But what the hell did the man of the street call them? I doubt he used those very complex systems of royal titulature, probably consisting of 40 different titles or something. Did the ordinary Roman say "did ya hear, the Syrians got their asses kicked by the Egyptians at some place called Raphia."
I know it´s next to impossible to find out about these things, but still.

For the average person, I only know of evidence for Ptolemaic Egypt. I know of an epigram from a funerary stele of a Bithynian who came to Egypt that calls the Ptolemies "the kings of Egypt."