Dedication to all gods and honors for a Cyrenaean citizen
IGCyr033900
Trismegistos ID: 47897
Source Description
Repository
Tulmeita Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with a hole on top; for a later use the base has been recut and the former inscribed side has two footprints for another statue (0.58-; 0.33;0.78).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.033.
Place of Origin
Date
Second half of second century B.C. (titulature)
Findspot
Found before 1915 in Ptolemais pleiades; HGL : South of the Fortress of the Dux , in which it had probably been re-used.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Ţulmaythah, in front of the Tolmeita Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography , pp. 151-152, n. 1, fig. 41, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.359; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 418-419, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1903.
Cf. PP Peremans, W., van't Dack, E., then Clarysse, W. et al., Prosopographia Ptolemaica, I-X, Studia Hellenistica6, 8, 11-13, 17, 20-21, 25, 38, Leuven, 1950-2002 - see in bibliography 15090; Bagnall, 1976 Bagnall, R.S.1976, The administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt, Columbia studies in the classical tradition4, Leiden - see in bibliography , p. 34; Moretti, 1977 Moretti, L., 1977, Recensioni di W. Huss, Untersuchungen zur Aussenpolitik Ptolemaios' IV e R. Bagnall, The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)105, 357-365 - see in bibliography , p. 363; Paci, 1989 Paci, G., 1989, Per la storia del dominio tolemaico in Cirenaica: nuovo basamento in onore dei dinasti alessandrini dall’agorà di Cirene, in L. Criscuolo, G. Geraci (eds.), Egitto e storia antica dall’ellenismo all’età araba: bilancio di un confronto. Atti del Colloquio internazionale, Bologna, 31 agosto - 2 settembre 1987, Bologna, 583-593 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 39.1718. Cf. Zimmermann, 1999 Zimmermann, K., 1999, Libyen: Das Land südlich des Mittelmeers im Weltbild der Griechen, Vestigia51, Munich - see in bibliography esp. p. 140, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 49.2504.
Text
Apparatus
2 [συγγενῆ καὶ σ]τρατηγὸν : Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography [τὸν συγγενῆ καὶ σ]τρατηγὸν : Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography [---] [σ]τρατηγὸν
3 Paci, 1989 Paci, G., 1989, Per la storia del dominio tolemaico in Cirenaica: nuovo basamento in onore dei dinasti alessandrini dall’agorà di Cirene, in L. Criscuolo, G. Geraci (eds.), Egitto e storia antica dall’ellenismo all’età araba: bilancio di un confronto. Atti del Colloquio internazionale, Bologna, 31 agosto - 2 settembre 1987, Bologna, 583-593 - see in bibliography [Λιβύην τόπω]ν : Moretti, 1977 Moretti, L., 1977, Recensioni di W. Huss, Untersuchungen zur Aussenpolitik Ptolemaios' IV e R. Bagnall, The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)105, 357-365 - see in bibliography , Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography [Κυρήνην τόπω]ν
French translation
(La statue d')[un tel fils de] [---] nès, cyrénéen, [Parent] (du roi), général des [zones de toute la Libye], a été consacrée à tous les dieux par Hippis fils d'Hippis, membre des [---] .
English translation
(The statue of) [so and so, son of] [---] nes, a Cyrenaean, [Akin] (to the king), general of the [places throughout Libya], was dedicated to all the gods by Hippis son of Hippis, a member of the [---] .
Italian translation
(La statua del) [tale, figlio di] [---] nes, cireneo, [Parente] (del re), stratego dei [luoghi di tutta la Libia], è stata dedicata a tutti gli dèi da Hippis figlio di Hippis, membro dei [---] .
Arabic translation
Commentary
The dimensions of the lost part may be inferred from l. 3, where Λιβύην seems probably better than Κυρήνην (see discussion by Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 418-419) and was later on confirmed through IGCyr080900.
At l. 2, the article would provide too long a restoration, whereas at l. 4 πρώτων φίλων, a title that would seem a good suggestion, is undoubtedly too long.
For the date, on basis of the lettering, Ghislanzoni proposed the end of the second or beginning of the first century B.C. Moretti thought that it was rather the first half of the second B.C. Eventually, the discussion of the aulic titles led Laronde to the second half of that century.
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