Public honors for Ptolemy VI Philometor
IGCyr084300
Trismegistos ID: 738398
Source Description
Support
Left part of a limestone block, probably belonging to the same monument as IGCyr033700 and IGCyr033800, reused in Roman times (0.56; 0.37;not available).
Layout
Inscribed on the face; lines centered along vertical axis.
Letters
0.045; carefully cut, similar to IGCyr033800, especially alpha, pi, eta and phi.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 168 and 164 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Found between 1935 and 1942 at Ptolemais pleiades; HGL : re-used in rostra at Square of the Cisterns .
Later recorded Location
Seen by A. Laronde between 1974 and 1990.
Last recorded Location
Seen by G. Paci in 1981.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
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 (ph.), 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. Cf. Caputo, 1954 Caputo, G., 1954, La protezione dei monumenti di Tolemaide negli anni 1935-1942, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL), 3, 33-66 - see in bibliography , p. 66, footnote 7.
Text
Apparatus
2 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 Φιλομήτορα τ[ὸν Πτολεμαίου] : 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 Φιλομήτορα Π[τολεμαίου]
3 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 [θεῶν Ἐπιφανῶν] : 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 [ἀδελφόν]
French translation
(La statue) du roi Ptolémée, Dieu Philomètôr, fils de Ptolémée et Cléopatre, Dieux Epiphanes, (a été consacrée), par la cité.
English translation
(The statue) of king Ptolemy, God Philometor, son of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Gods Epiphaneis (was dedicated)by the city.
Italian translation
(La statua) del re Tolemeo, Dio Filometore, figlio di Tolemeo e Cleopatra, Dèi Epifani (è stata dedicata) dalla città.
Commentary
There are at Ptolemais three similar bases for members of the Lagid family (IGCyr033700, IGCyr033800 and this one), which were re-used in a same Roman monument, that seems to lay upon the foundations of a Hellenistic monumental base to which they probably belonged, perhaps along with a fourth one, now lost. The Roman Square of the Cisterns may have been formerly either the gymnasium ( Stucchi, 1975 Stucchi, S., 1975, Architettura cirenaica, Monografie di Archeologia libica9, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 128, 130) 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 was first thought to mention king Ptolemy VIII Physcon; 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 has shown that it was dedicated to Ptolemy VI Philometor, while IGCyr033800 honoured his younger brother Ptolemy VIII, associated as king with Ptolemy VI and their sister Cleopatra.
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