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: Between 246 and 222 BC (reign).

Findspot: Said to come from Cyrene Cyrene ➚.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: British Museum, 1948.ii-ii.i. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

French translation

Bérénice.

English translation

Berenice.

Italian translation

Berenice.

Commentary

A similar item is IGCyr111200² found at Berenike.

The present arrow-head was presented to the British Museum as having been found at Cyrene. Was it really found in this city or is Cyrene used, as often, in a broad sense for Cyrenaica? Whatever the answer, we may hold for plausible that it belonged to the bodyguard of queen Berenice II.

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