Repository
Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H387.
Support
Bronze arrow head (0.06; 0.015; -).
Layout
Stamped on one face, to be read with the tip at right hand.
Letters
0.01; monogram: common vertical stroke for both beta and epsilon, the loops of beta inserted between the bars of epsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
If really from Berenice II, between 246 and 222 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Found during the excavations (1973-1975) conducted by J. Lloyd at Berenike pleiades; HGL : Hellenistic city walls (North area).
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editors.
Reynolds, 2010 Reynolds, J.M., 2010, Inscribed missiles found at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 225-228 - see in bibliography , pp. 225-226, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1832; Lloyd-Kenrick, 2014 Lloyd, J., Kenrick, Ph., 2014, Excavations at Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi, 1971-75: the small finds, Libyan Studies (LS), 45, 97-150 - see in bibliography , p. 137, fig. 16; Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015 Reynolds, J.M., Kenrick, P., 2015, The epigraphy of Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi (Berenice): an update, Libyan Studies (LibStud), 46, 75-101 - see in bibliography , pp. 75-76.
Bérénice.
Berenice.
Berenice.
A similar item found in Cyrenaica is IGCyr111250 and others were found in Crete and Egypt. They should not refer to the city of Berenike, but more plausibly to Berenice II queen of Egypt and the arrows would have belonged to her bodyguard. It is not impossible that Callimachus in Epigram 37 alludes to such events.
For the historical background, siege and desertion of Euesperides and foundation of Berenike, see 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. 390-396 and Wilson, 2003 Wilson, A.I., 2003, Une cité grecque de Libye: fouilles d'Euhésperides (Benghazi), Comptes rendus des séances. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2003, 1647-1675 - see in bibliography .
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