The monarch was, as has already been stated, the second Ptolemy, called commonly Ptolemy Philadelphus.

Ptolemy ordered that, in completing the tower, a marble tablet should be built into the wall, at a suitable place near the summit, and that a proper inscription should be carved upon it, with his name as the builder of the edifice conspicuous thereon.

Sostratus preferred inserting his own name.

He accordingly made the tablet and set it in its place.

He cut the inscription upon the face of it, in Greek characters, with his own name as the author of the work.