Cup of the Ptolemies understanding, also referred to as "un-naming", seems to have been a way for pagan artifacts to be reused for Christian purposes. The cup was probably made in Alexandria, Egypt. It was once thought to date back to the Hellenistic period, c. 250 BC, but is now regarded as dating to the 1st century AD. Its supposed connection with the Ptolemies dates back to 1644, when the historian Jean Tristan de Saint-Amant argued that the vase was made for the funeral processions of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 285 until 246 BC. Later, the scholar
The Rulers members realize what he is implying too late; as they rush to trigger a weapon to kill him, Latham orders the guards to shoot the device. The Rulers has not been widely reviewed. One of the few to mention it was a 1952 review of "Destination: Universe" in Galaxy Science Fiction which mentions the "coldness of his writing and the woodenness of his characterizations" and calling the story as one "from his Complicated Periods". The Rulers The Rulers is a golden age science fiction short story by A. E. van Vogt, originally published in "Astounding" in March 1946. It was