Owner's mark

IGCyr111200

Trismegistos ID: 738642

Source Description

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 : Hellenistic city walls (North area).

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editors.

Bibliography

Reynolds, 2010 , pp. 225-226, whence SEG , 60.1832; Lloyd-Kenrick, 2014 , p. 137, fig. 16; Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015 , pp. 75-76.

Text

Β͡ε(ρενίκη)

Apparatus

French translation

Bérénice.

English translation

Berenice.

Italian translation

Berenice.

Commentary

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 , pp. 390-396 and Wilson, 2003 .

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