Repository
Cyrene Museum, 14.
Support
Fragment of a white marble circular base, broken at right and left and behind (0.135; -; circumference 0.085; diameter 0.012).
Layout
Inscribed on the surface.
Letters
0.015; neatly cut, light serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 221 and 204 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Found in 1955 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , p. 112, n. 5, pl. XII, 5, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.732. 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 15776; 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. 417, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography 38.1882.
1 Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - 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 [Λιβυάρχαν?]
4 [καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῶν] (A. Bencivenni's reading.) Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography [καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν]
(La statue de) [c. 7] fils de Boïskos [(titre aulique)] a été consacrée par les Cyrénéens en raison de sa valeur [et de son dévouement envers le roi] Ptolémée [et la reine Arsinoé], Dieux Philopatores, [ainsi que leur fils].
(The statue of) [c. 7] son of Boiskos [(his title)] was dedicated by the Cyreaeans, in respect of his valour [and his goodwilling towards king]Ptolemy [and queen Arsinoe], Gods Philopatores, [and also their son].
(La statua di) [c. 7] figlio di Boiskos [(titolo aulico)] è stata dedicata dai Cirenei in considerazione del suo valore [e della sua dedizione verso il re] Tolemeo [e la regina Arsinoe], Dèi Filopatori, [e i loro figli].
Fraser's restorations are based on two facts: the length of the lines, inferred from the place of the only letter surviving of l. 5, and the preserved epithet Philopator.
However, at l. 4 our restoration is based on the fact that only one son, the future Ptolemy V Epiphanes, is known for the royal couple.
For the possible title Λιβυάρχας, see 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. 417.
It is a mere possibility that the father Boiskos was related to Kallikrates son of Boiskos, a nauarch of Ptolemy Philadelphus (so Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , p. 112, n. 5 and 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. 417).
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