Honorary inscription for queen Cleopatra III
IGCyr015800
Trismegistos ID: 5994
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 606.
Support
White marble base much worn out; reused on left side for IGCyr015900 (0.92; 0.25;0.76).
Layout
Inscribed on one face.
Letters
0.025; serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 128 and 116 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum (this side of the stone not seen).
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 70-71, n. 8, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.61. Cf. Robert, 1960 Robert, L., 1960, Hellenica: Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques, XI-XII, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 105 footnote 3; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 453, footnote 228; Criscuolo, 2011 Criscuolo, L., 2011, I due testamenti di Tolemeo VIII Evergete II, in A. Jördens, J.Fr. Quack (eds.), Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äusserem Druck: die Zeit Ptolemaios' VI. bis VIII.: internationales Symposion Heidelberg 16.-19.9.2007, Wiesbaden, 132-150 - see in bibliography , p. 137, footnote 22.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
(Statue de) la reine Cléopatre, épouse du roi Ptolémée, Dieu Evergète, (érigée) par les commandants de la garde en raison des bienfaits qu'elle leur a prodigués.
English translation
(Statue of) queen Cleopatra, wife of king Ptolemy, God Euergetes, (erected) by the chiefs of the guard on behalf of the benefactions provided to themselves.
Italian translation
(Statua della) regina Cleopatra, moglie del re Tolemeo, Dio Evergete, (eretta) dai comandanti della guardia in considerazione dei benefici loro concessi.
Commentary
For the re-use of the stone by Stolos, see commentary at IGCyr015900.
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