Public honors for Ptolemy VIII
IGCyr033800
Trismegistos ID: 6017
Source Description
Support
Limestone block, probably belonging to the same monument as IGCyr033700 and IGCyr084300; chipped out on all sides and especially below; inscribed surface in bad condition; reused in Roman times (1.17; 0.28; -).
Layout
Inscribed in four lines centered along vertical axis.
Letters
0.05; carefully cut, similar to IGCyr084300, especially alpha, pi, eta and phi.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 168 and 164 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Seen by all visitors since J.-R. Pacho (1825) at Ptolemais pleiades; HGL , recut and reused in the rostra of the Square of the Cisterns , 5th file, 4th block from right.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in place of re-use.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Letronne in Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. 74 and pp. 397-399 (= Letronne, 1828 Letronne, A.-J., 1828, Sur quelques inscriptions inédites trouvées dans la Cyrénaïque, Journal des Savants (JS), 259-265 - see in bibliography , pp. 259-261), whence CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5185; OGIS Dittenberger, W. (ed.), Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae, I-II, Leipzig, 1903-1905 - see in bibliography 124, and Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 42-45, n. 2, fig. 6, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.358.
Cf. 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. 398 and p.483; Lanciers, 1988 Lanciers, E., 1988, Die Alleinherrschaft des Ptolemaios VIII. im Jahre 164/163 v. Chr. und der Name Euergetes, in B.G. Mandilaras (ed.), Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology, Athens 25-31 May 1986, II, Athens, 405-433 - see in bibliography , pp. 430-431; Paci, 1996 Paci, G., 1996, Una dedica a Tolemeo Filometore il Giovane da Tolemaide, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 237-242 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2214; Criscuolo, 2001 Criscuolo, L., 2001, Filometore a Ptolemais di Cirenaica: a proposito di SEG XLVI 2214, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)135, 264-266 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 51.2213.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
(La statue) du roi Ptolémée, fils du roi Ptolémée et de la reine Cléopatre, le frère, Dieu Philomètôr, (a été érigée par) la cité.
English translation
(The statue of) king Ptolemy, son of king Ptolemy and of queen Cleopatra, the brother, God Philometor, (has been dedicated by) the city.
Italian translation
(La statua del) re Tolemeo, figlio del re Tolemeo e della regina Cleopatra, il fratello, Dio Filometore, (è stata eretta dalla) città.
Commentary
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 ( Stucchi, 1975 Stucchi, S., 1975, Architettura cirenaica, Monografie di Archeologia libica9, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 128, footnote 3) or the agora ( 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. 398).
This base has long been thought to mention king Ptolemy VI Philometor; after the publication of IGCyr084300, it appears ( Criscuolo, 2001 Criscuolo, L., 2001, Filometore a Ptolemais di Cirenaica: a proposito di SEG XLVI 2214, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)135, 264-266 - see in bibliography ) that the latter was dedicated to him, while the present one honoured his younger brother, associated as king with him and their sister Cleopatra, whence the date.
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