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تمثال الملكة آرسينوي، المؤلهة [فيلادلفوس]، ابنة بطليموس وبيرنيكي، [المؤلهين سوتيرس]، (كان قد نُصبَ) من قبل المدينه.
At Ptolemais there are three similar bases for members of the Lagid family (IGCyr033700, IGCyr033800 and
IGCyr084300), which were re-used in the same Roman monument that seems to lay upon the foundations of a Hellenistic monumental base to which
they probably all belonged, perhaps along with a fourth one, now lost. The Roman monument is part of the so-called Square of the Cisterns, which may have been formerly either
the gymnasium (
The present dedication may have been erected earlier than the two others, which, as
It is not clear whether the city mentioned at l. 3 might have been still Barka and not yet Ptolemais, for the cult of Arsinoe was specially developed in harbours and not
necessarily in the city-centre; however, as we now know that Ptolemais was founded probably after 260 (