Ptolemaeus son of Glaucias

Ptolemaeus son of Glaucias (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Γλαυκίου Μακεδών, romanized: Ptolemaios Glaukiou Makedon,[1] fl.

2nd century BC)[2] was a katochos (an unclear word roughly translatable as hermit) who lived in the Temple of Astarte in the Serapeum at Memphis, Egypt for 20 years.

There they performed the sacred funerary rites of the Apis bull, for which a pair of twins was ritually necessary to play the roles of Isis and Nephthys.

[6] Due to his katoche, Ptolemaeus relied on an agent, Harmais, and two therapeutae, Diphilos and Nikanor, who were able to leave the temple area unlike the katochoi.

He often appealed to the strategos of his nome, Dionysios, about injustices and crimes committed against him, including an occasion on which he claimed to have been nearly murdered by temple workers for being Greek.

A chapel at the Serapeum of Saqqara , like the one wherein Ptolemaeus lived in katoche for 20 years
A petition ( transcription and translation ) written by Ptolemaeus to Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II .
A Ptolemaic soldier from a stele dated 2nd century BC, the time of Apollonius' brief military service