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source date: If really from Berenice II, between 246 and 222 BC
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[...], pp. 225-226, whence [...], 60.1832; [...], p. 137, fig. 16; [...], pp. 75-76, whence [...], 65.2020; [...] 111200.

Βερενίκη

Bérénice.

Berenice.

Berenice.

A similar item found in Cyrenaica is IGCyr111250 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 [...], pp. 390-396 and [...].