Support: White marble base with a hole on top; for a later use the base has been recut and the former inscribed side has two footprints for another statue (w: 0.58- × h: 0.33 × d: 0.78).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.033.

Date: Second half of second century BC (titulature).

Findspot: Found before 1915 in Ptolemais ➚: South of the Fortress of the Dux, in which it had probably been re-used.

Place of origin: Ptolemais ➚.

Last recorded location: Tulmeita Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Ţulmaythah, in front of the Tolmeita Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. La statue d')[un tel fils de ---]nès, cyrénéen, [Parent] (scil. du roi), général des [zones de toute la Libye], a été consacrée à tous les dieux par Hippis fils d'Hippis, membre des [---].

English translation

(scil. The statue of) [so and so, son of ---]nes, a Cyrenaean, [Akin] (scil. to the king), general of the [places throughout Libya], was dedicated to all the gods by Hippis son of Hippis, a member of the [---].

Italian translation

(scil. La statua del) [tale, figlio di ---]nes, cireneo, [Parente] (scil. del re), stratego dei [luoghi di tutta la Libia], è stata dedicata a tutti gli dèi da Hippis figlio di Hippis, membro dei [---].

Arabic translation

(تمثال) [فلان بن فلان ---] نوس، كيريني (أي من كيريني)، [المُقرب منه (له من النفوذ والصلاحيات ما للملك)] (للملك) وجنرال (قائد) لل [أماكن في جميع أنحاء ليبيا]، كُرِس (أي التمثال) لجميع المؤلهين من قبل هيبوس بن هيبوس، عضو في ال[---].

Commentary

The dimensions of the lost part may be inferred from l. 3, where Λιβύην seems probably better than Κυρήνην (see discussion by Laronde 1987, pp. 418-419) and was later on confirmed through IGCyr080900².

At l. 2, the article would provide too long a restoration, whereas at l. 4 πρώτων φίλων, a title that would seem a good suggestion, is undoubtedly too long.

For the date, on basis of the lettering, Ghislanzoni proposed the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. Moretti thought that it was rather the first half of the second BC. Eventually, the discussion of the aulic titles led Laronde to the second half of that century.

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