Support: Bronze arrow head (w: 0.06 × h: 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.

Date: If really from Berenice II, between 246 and 222 BC (reign).

Findspot: Found during the excavations (1973-1975) conducted by J. Lloyd at Berenike ➚: Hellenistic city walls (North area).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H387. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editors.

French translation

Bérénice.

English translation

Berenice.

Italian translation

Berenice.

Commentary

A similar item found in Cyrenaica is IGCyr111250² 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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