Cover of Ptolemy's Gate

Ptolemy's Gate

core novel 2005 The Bartimaeus Sequence

Record

First published2005
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.28 (90,855 ratings, collected 2026-08-07)
Page count512
First-edition ISBN9780786818617
Internal chronology6

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (The Bartimaeus Sequence): Core = the original trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand 2003, The Golem's Eye 2004, Ptolemy's Gate 2005) plus The Ring of Solomon (2010), a full prequel novel set ~2,900 years earlier during King Solomon's reign and marketed as part of the same Sequence -- treated as Core by the same prequel-is-still-Core logic as The Chronicles of Damar's Hero and the Crown, not as separately-tiered companion material. internal chronology values reflect in-story order (Ring of Solomon first), not publication order. Registered as a quartet (4 books, closed set, no further Bartimaeus novels published or announced since 2010).

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series The Bartimaeus Sequence: position 3 of 4: previous The Golem's Eye (2004) · next The Ring of Solomon (2010)
  • Internal chronology, within The Bartimaeus Sequence: position 4 of 4: previous The Golem's Eye (2004)

Sources

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