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Chapter 6 - Ptolemaic Egypt: kingdom and empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

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Stanley M. Burstein
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Decree of the League of the Islanders recognizing the Ptolemaieia. Amorgos, about 280–278. Marble stele, third-century lettering, found at Nikuria but originally from Amorgos.

IG XII 7.506 with drawing; *SIG 390.

Tarn JHS 31 (911) 251–9; Tarn JHS 53 (1933) 61–8; Rostovtzeff, SEHHW 1.139; P. M. Fraser, BCH 78 (1954) 55–60; P. M. Fraser, HTR 54 (1961) 141–5; J. Bosquet, BCH 82 (1958) 77–82; I. Merker, Historia 19 (1970) 141–60;J.Seibert, Historia 19 (1970) 337–51; Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria 1.231–2; Shear, Hesperia Supp. 17 (1978) 33–7; E. Turner, CAH 138–9.

Resolution of the delegates of the Islanders, concerning the matters (about which) | [Philokle]s, the king of the Sidonians, and Bakchon, the Ne|[siarch], wrote to the cities, namely, that they dis|patch delegates to Samos to ∥ deliberate about the sacrifice and sacred en|voys and the contest, which King Pt[o|le]maios has established in honor of his father in Alexandria as equivalent to the Olympi|c, [and (which) now] with those who had come from the cities as dele|gates from the cities who were present Philokles and Bakchon discussed.

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The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII , pp. 117 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1985

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