Support
White marble, plain rectangular base; the base was later reused twice : 1) upside down for a statue with two footholes on the upper face; 2) recut so that the footholes are at the edge of the new block and a part of the first inscription is lost; on the upper side of the preserved part, there is a large and deep hole for attachment (0.418; 0.256;0.66).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.022; light serifs, alpha with rather low bar, beta with larger lower loop, kappa with long oblique bars, non slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 107 and 75 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Found in 1934 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , South of the Temple of Apollo and West of the Grotto of the Priests .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Later recorded Location
Seen by L. Gasperini in 1972 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Observed in 2004 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Morelli in 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 , 246 (no image); Van't Dack 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 , p. 35 and Habicht, 1972 Habicht, C., 1972, Beiträge zur Prosopographie der altgriechischen Welt, Chiron, 2, 103-134 - see in bibliography , pp. 127-128, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1972.620-621; 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; 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 (ph.; dr.) (= 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. Cf. Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography vol. II, p. 189, footnote 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. 139-140.
1
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
Αἰγλάνορα : 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
Αἰγλάνωρα ||
Laronde, 1987
Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography
, 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
Δαμ[ατρίω], [τὸν συνγενῆ τῶ] : 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
Δαμα[---]
2
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
Π[τολεμαίω], [πολλὰς καὶ] : 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
Π[τολεμαίω ---] : 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
, Laronde, 1987
Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography
ἁ̣[μῶν Πτολεμαίω]
3 ἀποδεί[ξιας] : 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
ἀποδεί[ξεις]
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
, Vickers-Reynolds, 1971-1972
Vickers, M., Reynolds, J.M., 1971-1972, Cyrenaica 1962-72, Archaeological reports, 18, 27-47 - see in bibliography
(independently) λ̣ό̣γωι : 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
ἄθλωι || τᾶ[ς ποθ’ ἑαυτὸς] : 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
τᾶ[ς ποθ’ ἑαυτοὺς] : 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
τᾶ[ς ποθ’ αὑτοὺς] : Laronde, 1987
Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography
τᾶ[ς εὐνοίας ἕνεκα καὶ]
5 Κυραν̣[αῖοι (vac. 2) ἀνέθηκαν] : 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
Κυραν̣[αῖοι ---] : 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
Κυραν̣[αῖοι (vac.)]
(La statue) d'Aiglanor fils de Damatrios, Parent de Ptolémée qui fut notre roi, pour les nombreuses grandes démonstrations qu'il a faites en paroles et en actes de son affection envers eux [a été consacrée], par les Cyrénéens.
(The statue) of Aiglanor son of Damatrios, Akin to Ptolemy once our king, on behalf of the many great demonstrations in deeds and in words of his love towards themselves, [was dedicated] by the Cyrenaeans.
(La statua) di Aiglanor figlio di Damatrios, Parente di Tolemeo che è stato nostro re, in considerazione delle molte dimostrazioni con le parole e con i fatti del suo affetto nei loro confronti, [è stata dedicata] dai Cirenei.
(تمثال) إيجلانور بن داماتريوس، قريب ملكنا بطليموس، لأجل ظهوره أو مشاركته اللافته في العديد من الاعمال العظيمة ولكلماته المحبه لهم، [أهدي] (هذا التمثال .له) من قبل الكيرينيين
Morelli and Reynolds had seen the stone in the right position for someone reading this inscription. Later on, Gasperini found the stone and described it as having been used twice. He supposed that a similar block had stood at right of this side. However his description is somewhat confusing as to the different sides and the caption of his figure 5 is erroneous. Dobias-Lalou now thinks that there were three successive phases, as described above.
This dedication is very similar to IGCyr065000 and has been restored as fully parallel by Laronde who had not found the stone. However Gasperini showed that there were some substantial differences.
The common problem of both inscriptions is the exact meaning of the aorist participle βασιλεύσαντος: it might refer either to a dead king (Ptolemy IX Soter II or the discussed Ptolemy Apion) or to a king who no longer reigned over Cyrenaica (Ptolemy IX Soter II, after he flew to Cyprus in 107 B.C.).
About the discovery of the stone see the report now published by Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , p. 141.
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