of a youthful appearance, and particularly those first portraits created during the reign of JubaII virtually show his relations to the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This is evident by the arrangement of the comma shaped locks over the forehead. There is a seven-inch fine bronze Roman imperial bust of Ptolemy about age 15 which Sotheby's auctioned in New York for $960,000 in 2004. References Citations Bibliography Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, Partner of my Labors Encyclopædia Britannica - Ptolemy of Mauretania Burstein, Stanley M. The Reign of Cleopatra, University of Oklahoma Press December 30, 2007 Nikos Kokkinos, Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady (London; New York: Routledge 1992) Michael Brett & Elizabeth Fentress, The Berbers, Blackwell Publishers 1997 John Williams Humphrey, John Peter Oleson & Andrew N. Sherwood. Contributors: John Peter Oleson and Andrew N. Sherwood: Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook: Annotated Translations of Greek Texts and Documents, Routledge 1998 Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial, Brill 2004 Christopher H. Hallett, The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300, Oxford University Press, 2005 External links ancient library article on Ptolemy coinage article and biography on Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II article on Cleopatra Selene II, Queen of Mauretania 10s BC births 40 deaths 1st-century BC Berber people 1st-century Berber people 1st-century disestablishments 1st-century executions 1st-century monarchs in Africa Julii Kings of Mauretania People executed by the Roman Empire People from Cherchell Ptolemaic dynasty Roman client rulers