Public honours for Ptolemy VIII
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Between 168 and 164 BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Letronne in [...], pl. 74 and pp. 397-399 (= [...], pp. 259-261), whence [...] 5185; [...] 124, and [...], pp. 42-45, n. 2, fig. 6, whence [...], 9.358; [...] 033800.

Cf. [...], p. 398 and p.483; [...], pp. 430-431; [...], whence [...], 46.2214; [...], whence [...], 51.2213.

Βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον, τὸν βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου καὶ βασιλίσσης Κλεοπάτρας, ἀδελφόν, θεὸν Φιλομήτορα, ἡ πόλις .

La statue du roi Ptolémée, fils du roi Ptolémée et de la reine Cléopatre, le frère, Dieu Philomètôr, a été érigée par la cité.

The statue of king Ptolemy, son of king Ptolemy and of queen Cleopatra, the brother, God Philometor, has been dedicated by the city.

La statua del re Tolemeo, figlio del re Tolemeo e della regina Cleopatra, il fratello, Dio Filometore, è stata eretta dalla città.

(تمثال) الملك بتوليميوس (بطليموس)، ابن الملك بتوليميوس والملكة كليوباترا، شقيق المُؤله فيلوميتور، (كُرِس من قبل) المدينة.

At Ptolemais there are three similar bases for members of the Lagid family (IGCyr033700, IGCyr033800 and IGCyr084300), which were re-used in the same Roman monument that seems to lay upon the foundations of a Hellenistic monumental base to which they probably all belonged, perhaps along with a fourth one, now lost. The Roman monument is part of the so-called Square of the Cisterns, which may have been formerly either the gymnasium ([...], p. 128, footnote 3) or the agora ([...], p. 398).

This base has long been thought to mention king Ptolemy VI Philometor; after the publication of IGCyr084300, it appears ([...]) that the latter was dedicated to him, while the present one honoured his younger brother, associated as king with him and their sister Cleopatra, whence the date.