Royal letter by a Ptolemy (?)
created: Transcription from stone, squeeze and photograph (CDL).
source date: Probably second half of second or first half of first century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 132500, whence [...], 67.1484; with changes in this edition.

[...] [...] ιτον Ἱπποσ[...][...] ὑμέτερον πολίτην[...] τος αἱρούμεν[...] [...] αὐτὸς καὶ [...] μέγας αι[...] σύμβαν ἐς ὅλον [...] τῆι πόλει τε η[...] τὸν στέφανον [...] [...] ἔχοντα [...] [...]

ιτον[^a1] ὑμέτερον πολίτην[^a2] τος αἱρούμεν[...][^a3] μέγας[^a4] ὅλον[^a5] ἔχοντα[^a6]

[^a1: ιτον | ι τῶι]

[^a2: ὑμέτερον πολίτην | ἡμέτερον [...]]

[^a3: τος αἱρούμεν[...] | αὐτὸς αἱρούμενος]

[^a4: μέγας | ἡμέρας]

[^a5: ὅλον | ου]

[^a6: ἔχοντα | [...]ιοντ]

[...] [...]itos fils d'Hippos[...] [...] votre concitoyen [...]; choisissant [...], lui-même et [...] grand [...] ce qui a concouru à tout [...] pour la cité et [...] la couronne [...] ayant [...].

[...] [...]itos son of Hippos[...] [...] your fellow citizen [...]; choosing [...], himself and [...] large [...] what contributed to the whole [...] for the city and [...] the crown [...] having [...].

[...] [...]itos figlio di Ippos[...] [...] il vostro concittadino [...]; scegliendo [...], lui stesso e [...] grande [...] ciò che ha contribuito all'intero [...] alla città e [...] la corona [...] avendo [...].

This edition has been enhanced with help of a copy and a squeeze made by Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and found again in 2021, whereas the first edition (2017) was based only on the photograph kept in the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene.

The layout and presumable date allow to think of a public legal document and the probable mention of a man with father's name Hippos-, together with the use of 'your' at l. 3 with the plausible 'citizen' and a probable mention of a garland at l. 9 recall of honorific decisions. Yet the use of the koine (at least proved by αἱρούμενος at l. 4, whence other restored forms) prevents from thinking of a decree of the city and would rather indicate some decision by a Ptolemy. However, the whole remains hypothetical because of the very fragmentary condition of the stone.

The second personal name at line 2 might be Ἱππόστρατος, already attested at Cyrene for a contributor about 280 BC (IGCyr065200), but other names such as Ἱπποσθένης, common in other regions, would be quite predictable also in Cyrenaica. Before that name, the group ιτον is plausibly the end of a name at the accusative, so that Hippos[...] would be the father's name.