Private honours for a Ptolemaic officer with artist's signature
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably between 144 and 116 BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], pp. 116-118, n. 9, pl. XIII, 9, whence [...], 18.735; [...] 063400. Cf. [...], p. 453, footnote 228. [...], p. 40 and [...], 2005.622, whence [...], 53.2042; [...], n. 10, whence [...], 64.2012; [...], p. 184, footnote 38.

[...] [...] [...]λα[...] εὐνοίας ἕνεκα τᾶς ἐς βασιλῆ Πτολεμαῖον θεὸν Εὐεργέταν καὶ βασίλισσαν Κλευπάτραν τὰν γυναῖκα αὐτῶ καὶ ἐς τὰ παιδία αὐτῶν. [...]υοντος Κυραναῖος ἐποίησεν.

[...]υοντος[^a1]

[^a1: [...]υοντος | [...]οντος | [...]μέδοντος]

La statue de [...]fils de[...] a été consacrée, par [...] fils de [...] en raison de son dévouement envers le roi Ptolémée, Dieu Evergète, envers la reine Cléopatre, son épouse et leurs enfants.

Oeuvre de [...] fils de [...]ôn cyrénéen.

The statue of [...], son of [...] was dedicated by [...] son of [...] on account of his goodwilling towards king Ptolemy, God Euergetes, and queen Cleopatra, his wife as well as their children.

Made by [...] son of [...]on, a Cyrenaean.

La statua di [...], figlio di [...] è stata dedicata da [...] figlio di [...] in considerazione della sua dedizione verso il re Tolemeo, Dio Evergete, verso la regina Cleopatra, sua sposa e verso i loro figli.

Opera di [...] figlio di [...]on, cireneo.

(تمثال) [---]، [ابن ---] (أُهْدِيَّ) من قبل [---] ابن [---] [وذلك لنواياه الحسنة] تجاه الملك [بتوليميوس (بطليموس)، المؤله إفيرغتيس] والملكة [كليوباترا، زوجته بالإضافة إلى أبنائِهم]. [صنع من قبل ---] ابن [---] ، كيريني (أي أنه شخص من كيريني).

This panel was probably attached to a base or another monument honouring a royal official, serving under a king whom Laronde identified with Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, whose regnal date would fit well the lettering. The queen who gave him children is Cleopatra III. Rosamilia is less confident, leaving open the possibility that they might be Ptolemy V and Cleopatra I. However, this seems conflicting with the use of alpha with dropped bar, which the same scholar defines inside the Hellenistic period as a temporary use limited to the reigns of Ptolemy VIII and IX.

Adams' suggestion that the royals mentioned here were themselves portrayed above is a nonsense.

Line 1 would have mentionned the honorandus at the accusative.

Lines 2 may have contained his titles.

For line 7, written in smaller characters, [...] thought either of a dedicant or of an artist, prefering the latter for reasons of style (the smaller lettering) and of formula (the ethnic would be less surprising for an artist's signature, even at his birthplace). So does also Rosamilia. Near the break at the beginning, there remains part of an oblique stroke, not seen by Fraser, which might belong either to an upsilon or to a chi. The former would allow to restore the father's name as Λύων, whereas no name ending with -χων may be suggested. However, as both Cyrenaican occurrences of Λύων date from the imperial period, we preferred not to restore it.