Repository
Cyrene Museum, 15 (fragment a) and 7 (fragment b).
Support
Two joining fragments of a white-blue marble base broken at right (fragment a 0.08; 0.07;0.095; fragment b 0.175; 0.155;0.30).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.019; small omicron 0.012; sigma with four slanting strokes.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 240 and 220 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found before 1956 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 , pp. 111-112, n. 4, pl. XII, 4, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.734; Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography II, p. 191, footnote 85; 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. Cf. Marquaille, 2003 Marquaille, C., 2003, The Ptolemaic ruler as a religious figure in Cyrenaica, Libyan Studies (LibStud), 34, 25-42 - see in bibliography , and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2005.620, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2028.
1 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 λιβυάρχαν?] : Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography [Μακεδόνα?]
(La statue de) Pélops fils de Pélops, [le gouverneur de Libye?] a été consacrée [par les Cyrénéens] en raison de sa valeur [et de son dévouement envers le roi] Ptolémée et [la reine Bérénice, Dieux] Evergètes, ainsi [que leurs enfants].
[The statue of] Pelops son of Pelops, [the governor of Libya?] was dedicated [by the Cyrenaeans] on account of his valour [and goodwilling towards king] Ptolemy and [queen Berenice, Gods] Euergetai, as well as [their chidren].
[La statua di] Pelops figlio di Pelops, [il governatore della Libia?] è stata dedicata [dai Cirenei] in considerazione del suo valore [e della sua dedizione verso il re] Tolemeo e [la regina Berenice, Dèi] Evergeti, e [dei loro figli].
Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , published only fragment b, but was able to complete the name of Pelops, who was already known from different sources. However he later heard about the missing fragment a, as appears from the mentioned footnote in Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography .
At l. 1, Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , after having considered the titles στραταγός or Λιβυάρχης, preferred e.g. Μακεδόνα. Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography reinforced Λιβυάρχας which fits better the space available and might also be restored in IGCyr063100 and IGCyr063200.
The terminus post quem is based on the fact that Pelops should have been governor of Cyrenaica before assuming the same duty at Cyprus from 217 to 209 B.C.; the terminus ante quem, on the fact that the eldest son of the royal couple was born ca. 244 B.C.
The inventory number shows that the stone was already part of the epigraphic collection at the time of the reorganization of the Cyrenaean antiquities after World War II care of Goodchild (from 1956 on) and before Fraser observed it. It may well have been found already during the last years of the Italian period.
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