Private honours for Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably between 130 and 116 BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Morelli in [...], 273 (no image); [...] 105710.

Βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον θεὸν Εεργέτην [...] [...] τῶν πτων φίλων [...]

Βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον θεὸν Εεργέτην[^a1] τῶν πτων φίλων[^a2]

[^a1: Βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον θεὸν Εεργέτην | [...]θεονευς]

[^a2: τῶν πτων φίλων | Πρατᾶ]

La statue du roi Ptolémée Dieux Evergète [...] a été consacrée par Un tel des Premiers Amis [...].

The statue of king Ptolemy God Euergetes [...] was dedicated by So-and-so of the First Friends [...].

La statua del re Tolemeo Dio Evergete [...] è stata dedicata dal tale dei Primi Amici [...].

(تمثال) [الملك بتوليميوس (بطليموس)] المُؤلَّه المُنْقِذ [---] [كُرِس من قِبل فلان] من الأصدقاء الأوائل (أحد أعضاء هذه المجموعة) [---].

There are many obscurities in this inscription, which seems to belong to a larger monument with a missing part at left, either another block or a part that was cut off for a re-use.

The reading is made difficult because of both lines being partly hammered, perhaps on occasion of a re-use. A honorific base for a king would have stood on the agora proper. It may whave been moved from there to its findspot, some blocks further to the East.

At line 1, Morelli's reading does not lead to an acceptable name. The last preserved letter, read by him as sigma, has only the upper and lower bars preserved, so that it may be an epsilon as well. If so we catch a possible mention of a king 'God Euergetes' who, given the lettering, would be the second one, preferably at the end of his reign.

At line 2, as read by Morelli, genitive of masculine Πράτας or nominative of Πράτα, those names are unknown in Cyrenaica and nearly inexistant elsewhere. C. Dobias-Lalou could not read as much as Morelli. The 2nd letter, a rho for Morelli, not seen by C. Dobias-Lalou, seems to be confirmed by the photograph. Of the 3rd letter she could see only the upper part which is not pointed like an alpha and would rather be an omega. The 4th letter is a clear tau. The 5th letter, which she could not see, might be also an omega instead of the alpha read by Morelli.