 By naming her son Ptolemy instead of a Berber ancestral name, she offers an example rare in ancient history, especially in the case of a son who is the primary male heir, of reaching into the mother's family instead of the father's for a name.This emphasized the idea that his mother was the heiress of the Ptolemies and the leader of a Ptolemaic government in exile.Through his parents, Ptolemy had Roman citizenship and they sent him to Rome to be educated.