Private honors for king Ptolemy IX Soter II

Source Description

Repository

Apollonia Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

Fragment of a white marble base, broken off all around, (as preserved 0.515; 0.30;0.365); re-cut later with a central hole in the inscribed face, forming a small basin (diameter 0.085).

Layout

Inscribed on front face (0.455; 0.28;).

Letters

0.023-0.025; small serifs, upper part of upsilon widely open, non-slanting sigma, theta with small central dot.

Place of Origin

Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL .

Date

Between 108 and 103 B.C. (reign, prosopography)

Findspot

Found plausibly before 1935 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : in the West Church .

Later recorded Location

Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at the same place.

Later recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : outside the North-Eastern angle of West Church .

Last recorded Location

Seen again in 2004 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : Apollonia Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 204 (no image); Hauben in 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 , pp. 33-34; Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1972.622; Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography ; Reynolds, 1976 Reynolds, J.M., 1976, The Inscriptions of Apollonia, in R.G. Goodchild, J. Griffiths Pedley, D. White, J.H. Humphrey (eds.), Apollonia, the port of Cyrene: excavations by the University of Michigan, 1965-1967, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 4, Tripoli, 293-333 - see in bibliography , pp. 305-306, n. 24, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 27.1126. Cf. Mooren, 1975 Mooren, L., 1975, The Aulic Titulature in Ptolemaic Egypt. Introduction and Prosopography, Brussel - see in bibliography , n. 0372; Mooren, 1977 Mooren, L., 1977, Le hiérarchie de cour ptolémaïque. Contribution à l'étude des institutions et des classes dirigeantes à l'époque hellénistique, Lovanii - see in bibliography , pp. 186-188; Hauben, 1977 Hauben H.1977, Was Stolos a Cyrenaean?, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)25, 221-226 - 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 , pp. 446, 462; 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 , p. 137, footnote 22.

Text

[Βασιλέα Πτολεμ]αῖον̣ [θεὸν Σω]-[τῆρα βασι]λέως Πτολε̣[μαίου τοῦ] δ̣ευτ̣[έρ]ου Εὐερ[γέτου Στόλ]ος Θέ[ωνος ὁ συ]γ̣γ[ένης] 5[καὶ] ἐ̣πισ[τολαγράφος καὶ ἀρχεδέατρος καὶ] ναύαρ̣[χος καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἡνιῶν εὐερ]γ̣ε̣[σ]ί[ας ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς ἑαυτόν] - - - - - -

Apparatus

1 Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography [Βασιλέα Πτολεμ]αῖον̣ [θεὸν Σω] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] [Πτολεμ?]αῖον̣ : 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 [Βασιλέα Πτολεμ]αῖον̣ [Σωτῆρα]

2 Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography [τῆρα βασι]λέως Πτολε̣[μαίου] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] [βασι]λέως Πτολε̣[μαίου ---] : 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 [τὸν ἐγ βασι]λέως

3 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 [τοῦ] δ̣ευτ̣[έρ]ου Εὐερ[γέτου] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] +Ε̣Υ+ [...] ΟΥ Εὐερ[γετ]

4 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 [Στόλ]ος Θέ[ωνος ὁ συ]γ̣γ[ένης] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] Ο̣ΣΟ+ [---] + [---]

5 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 [καὶ] ἐ̣πίσ[τολαγράφος καὶ ἀρχεδέατρος?] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] +ΠΙΣ[---]

6 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 [καὶ] ναύαρ̣[χος καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἡνίων?] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] ναυαρ̣[χ] : Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography [καὶ] ναύαρ̣[χος εὐεργεσίας]

7 Reynolds, 1976 Reynolds, J.M., 1976, The Inscriptions of Apollonia, in R.G. Goodchild, J. Griffiths Pedley, D. White, J.H. Humphrey (eds.), Apollonia, the port of Cyrene: excavations by the University of Michigan, 1965-1967, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 4, Tripoli, 293-333 - see in bibliography [εὐερ]γ̣ε̣[σ]ί[ας ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς ἑαυτόν] : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [---] ΓΗ[---] : Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography [ἕνεκεν] τ̣ῆ[ς εἰς ἑαυτόν]

French translation

(La statue du) roi Ptolémée, Dieu Sôtèr, fils du roi Ptolémée, le second Evergète, (a été consacrée), par Stolos fils de Théôn, son Parent, épistolographos (i.e. secrétaire), arkhédéatros (i.e. intendant en chef), navarque, préposé aux rênes, en raison de sa bienveillance envers lui.

English translation

(The statue of) king Ptolemy, God Soter, son of Ptolemy, the second Euergetes, (was dedicated) by Stolos son of Theon, his Akin, epistolographos (i.e. secretary), archedeatros (i.e. chief steward), navarch, in charge of the reins, on behalf of his benevolence towards himself.

Italian translation

(La statua del) re Tolemeo, Dio Sotere, figlio del re Tolemeo, Evergete secondo, (è stata dedicata) da Stolos figlio di Theon, Parente, epistolographos (i.e. segretario), archedeatros (i.e. capo maggiordomo), navarco, preposto alle briglie, in considerazione della benevolenza verso di lui.

Commentary

Pugliese Carratelli (SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 204) described the stone at the very place where it still laid in 1976, before being brought into the Museum for preservation. On that basis, Reynolds, who had not found it, argued that it had probably been found before 1935 and thus should have come from the Eastern Church, the only one excavated by the Italians before World War II (so again in Ward-Perkins-Goodchild-Reynolds, 2003 Ward-Perkins, J.B., Goodchild, R.G., (edited by Reynolds, J.M.), 2003, Christian monuments of Cyrenaica, Society for Libyan Studies monograph4, London - see in bibliography , p. 57). In fact, Pugliese Carratelli had only a copy of the stone coming from Oliverio's papers and checked the stone to complete the publication on occasion of his own visit to Cyrenaica in 1960. The date of the find is thus before 1935, but not necessarily related to real excavations. The most probable is a chance find during the Italian period in the area of the West Church. Anyhow, as the stone was re-used, maybe for a stoup, its original place cannot be guessed.

On Stolos, the Athenian admiral, see Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography , who proposed for the Cyrenaean dedications a date between 108 and 103 B.C., and Hauben, 1977 Hauben H.1977, Was Stolos a Cyrenaean?, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)25, 221-226 - see in bibliography , who explored the possibility that he was a born Cyrenaean and later granted Athenian citizenship. Mooren, 1977 Mooren, L., 1977, Le hiérarchie de cour ptolémaïque. Contribution à l'étude des institutions et des classes dirigeantes à l'époque hellénistique, Lovanii - see in bibliography , pp. 187-188 explains why Stolos had the title syggenes ('Akin').

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