Support
White marble plain rectangular base with holes for attachment on the rear edge of the upper face, perhaps related to a reuse (1.30; 0.35;0.65).
Layout
Ιnscribed on front face.
Letters
0.033; light serifs, alpha with rather low bar, beta with larger lower loop, kappa with long oblique bars, pi with projecting upper bar, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 107 and 75 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Found in 1960-1961, probably during the excavations of the Department under Harrison at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , Valley Street, North Side , built into a late Roman wall.
Last recorded Location
Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 and 2004 near the findspot, in front of Public Building D .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Harrison-Sichtermann, 1962 Harrison, R.M. in Sichtermann, H., 1962, Archäologische Funde und Forschungen in Libyen: Kyrenaika 1959-1961; Tripolitanien 1942-1961, Archäologischer Anzeiger (Arch. Anz.)1962, col 1.417-536 - see in bibliography , col. 437, fig. 11, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.729; Reynolds in Vickers-Reynolds, 1971-1972 Vickers, M., Reynolds, J.M., 1971-1972, Cyrenaica 1962-72, Archaeological reports, 18, 27-47 - see in bibliography , p. 44, fig. 21; 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. 421-422, 455, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1885; Gasperini, 1996 Gasperini, L., 1996, Note di epigrafia cirenea, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 143-156 [= , 361-386] - see in bibliography , pp. 149-154 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 370-380), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2202; Dobias-Lalou, 1999 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1999, Polis et chôra en Cyrénaïque: le dossier épigraphique, in A. Laronde, J.-J. Maffre (eds.), Cités, ports et campagnes de la Cyrénaïque gréco-romaine: Actes de la journée d’études sur la Cyrénaïque organisée à Paris le 21 novembre 1992 par la Société Française d’Archéologie Classique, Karthago24, 141-146 - see in bibliography , p. 145, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 49.2352; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 262, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637. Cf. Hauben-Van't Dack, 1971 Hauben, H., Van't Dack E., 1971, A propos de quelques inscriptions de la Cyrénaïque, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)8, 33-39 - see in bibliography , p. 35; Habicht, 1972 Habicht, C., 1972, Beiträge zur Prosopographie der altgriechischen Welt, Chiron, 2, 103-134 - see in bibliography , pp. 127-128; Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography , vol. II, p. 189, n. 81; Mooren, 1975 Mooren, L., 1975, The Aulic Titulature in Ptolemaic Egypt. Introduction and Prosopography, Brussel - see in bibliography , n. 0407; Bagnall, 1976 Bagnall, R.S.1976, The administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt, Columbia studies in the classical tradition4, Leiden - see in bibliography , pp. 36-37; 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 , pp. 133-140 and Laronde, 2011 Laronde, A., 2011, Cyrène au début du Ier siècle av. J.-C., Mare Internum, 3, 59-63 - see in bibliography , p. 60, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1552.
(La statue de) Aiglanor fils de Damatrios, cyrénéen, Parent de Ptolémée qui fut notre roi, à la suite des très grands bienfaits rendus à sa patrie, aux autres cités et aux populations de la campagne, (a été érigée), par les Cyrénéens.
(The statue of) Aiglanor son of Damatrios, Cyrenaean, Akin to Ptolemy once our king, great benefactor of his home-city, of the other cities and of the people living in the country, (was erected) by the Cyrenaeans.
(La statua di) Aiglanor figlio di Damatrios, cireneo, Parente di Tolemeo che è stato nostro re, per i grandissimi benefici resi alla sua patria, alle altre città e alle popolazioni della campagna, (è stata eretta) dai Cirenei.
This honorific inscription is very similar to IGCyr104100, which has been restored by Laronde as fully parallel. However Gasperini showed that there were some substantial differences.
The common problem is the exact meaning of the aorist participle βασιλεύσαντος: it might refer either to a dead king (Ptolemy IX Soter II or Ptolemy Apion) or to a king who no longer reigned over Cyrenaica (Ptolemy IX Soter II, when he flew to Cyprus in 107 B.C.).
The question is related to the circumstances when Aiglanor gained his title of syggenes , that is 'akin' to the king. The question was diversely answered by Habicht, Laronde and Criscuolo, who even thought that Ptolemy VIII Euergetes was possible.
Αἰγλάνωρ, twice honoured in his home-city, high officer of one Ptolemy, was probably the man whose name was misspelled as Αἰγλάτωρ in Plutarchus' and Polyaenus' manuscripts as shown by Habicht.
The stone was found at a place where it was probably reused: it is unclear whether it originally stood in the nearby quarter of the agora or in the Sanctuary of Apollo like IGCyr104100.
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