ca. 116 B.C.E.

Military command of Ptolemy [Asia Minor] [Unconfirmed]

Commentary from other sources:
1) “…he commanded his soldiers to strangle them (Jewish women and children), and to cut their throats like a butcher, and then to cast them into boiling caldrons, and then to devour their limbs as sacrifices.”
Josephus: Antiquitates Judaicae, 13.12.6