Ptolemy of Mauretania was the last Roman client king and ruler of Mauretania for Rome. He was the son of Juba II, the king of Numidia and a member of the Berber Massyles tribe, as well as a descendant of the Ptolemaic dynasty via his mother Cleopatra Selene II.
Bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, c. 30–40, Louvre
An ancient Roman bust of Cleopatra Selene II, Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria
An ancient Roman bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria
Bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania in the Vatican Museums (Museo Chiaramonti)
Mauretania is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic, encompassing northern present-day Morocco, and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlas Mountains. Its native inhabitants, of Berber ancestry, were known to the Romans as the Mauri and the Masaesyli.
Mauretania
The tomb of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II in Tipaza, Algeria
Coin of Faustus Sulla, with the reverse depicting the Mauretanian king Bocchus I (left) offering Jugurtha (right) to Faustus' father Lucius Sulla.