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ID AXON99
Author(s)Giuditta Mirizio
Date25-10-2017
TitleDedica onoraria per Tolemeo III e Berenice
Abstract (max. 650 characters with spaces included)

Dedica da parte dei Phalasarni in onore del re Tolemeo III Evergete e di sua moglie, la regina Berenice II, formulata secondo lo schema di una dedica votiva e consacrata ai Grandi Dei, forse i Cabiri secondo l'interpretazione più probabile.

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Edizioni Ca' Foscari

Object typeBase; limestone; 42,5 × 21,5 × 6,5 cm. Complete. La stele si presenta rovinata nella sua parte superiore sinistra.
ChronologyPost ca. 243/2 - ca. 222/1 BC.
Type of inscriptionHonorary inscription.
Findspot and circumstances
1921-1923. Ritrovata durante la quarta ricognizione della Missione Archeologica Italiana a Creta (1921-1923).
Greece, Creta (island), Phalasarna.
Preservation placeGreece, Heraklion, Museo.
Script
  • Structure: prose.
  • Execution technique: engraved.
  • Special letters: alphaalpha; thetatheta; pipi.
  • Letter size: 1.5-2.
Lemma

I.Cret. II 19 nr.2, 221-222, fig. [Kotsidu, Ehrungen nr. 196, 286; Huss 2001, 361, n.48]; Guarducci, Epigrafia greca II 147-148, fig. 32.; Guarducci, Epigrafia greca² 156; Gondicas 1988, nr. B 11, 2.4.

Cfr. Halbherr 1924, 96; Bagnall 1976, 117, n.3.

Text 

[῾Υ]πὲρ βασιλέως

Π̣τολεμαίου καὶ

Βασιλίσσης Βερενίκης

Θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν

5

Φαλασαρνίων ἡ πόλις

Θεοῖς Μεγάλοις.

Translation
 Per il re Tolemeo e per la regina Berenice, dèi Evergeti, la città dei Phalasarni ai Grandi Dei.
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