Greek Inscriptions from Egypt

J. G. Milne

doi:10.2307/623876

Greek Inscriptions from Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013

J. G. Milne

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The inscriptions here published are for the most part in the Ghizeh Museum, where I copied them last year when assisting in the preparation of the catalogue of the Graeco-Roman rooms. They do not appear to have been edited previously, and offer some points of interest. The numbers given are those of the new catalogue.

The inscription is on a columnar statue-base of limestone ·88 metres high and ·53 in diameter, one side having been cut flat to receive it; the remainder of the surface is decorated with acanthus leaves. The letters are, in the first seven lines, ·026–·031 high: in the rest, ·015–·02. Date: 181, June 25th.

The stone was seen by Dr. Petrie about 1886 lying at Sakha (Xois), where he copied it, and appears to have been removed to the Museum three or four years ago. It is quoted by S. de Ricci in Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. 1900, vol. xxii. p. 381.

The name of Commodus has been deliberately erased in 1. 5, every vestige of the letters being cut away. A similar erasure has taken place of the name of the prefect in l. 15, but the work has been much less thoroughly done there, by merely digging a line through the letters. The traces which remain are, however, insufficient to make the restoration of the name possible. The nearest in date of the known prefects is Flavius Pris[cus], mentioned in a Berlin papyrus of the year 181/2: but his name will not suit.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 21 , November 1901 , pp. 275 - 292

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/623876 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1901

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^{page 276 note 1} B.G.U. 12.

^{page 276 note 2} British Museum Cat. Coins, ‘Alexandria,’ 540, 879.

^{page 276 note 3} Hdt. ii. 59.

^{page 276 note 4} C.I.G. iii. 4944^b.

^{page 276 note 5} Ἀθήναιον iii. 87.

^{page 276 note 6} B.M. Cat. Coins, 1121.

^{page 276 note 7} B.G.U. 1.

^{page 276 note 8} Pap. B. M. 353.

^{page 276 note 9} Hermathena xxi. 243.

^{page 276 note 10} Pap. B.M. 345.

^{page 276 note 11} J.H.S. xii. 384.

^{page 276 note 12} C.I.G. iii. 4703^c.

^{page 276 note 13} Rec. Trav. x. 140.

^{page 277 note 1} R.A. ii. 3rd ser. 177.

^{page 277 note 2} R.E.G. iv. 56.

^{page 277 note 3} C.I.G. iii. 5115.

^{page 277 note 4} C.I.G. iii. 4915^c, 4922^d.

^{page 277 note 5} See R. S. Poole, B. M. Cat. Coins, ‘Alexandria,’ p. lxiv.

^{page 277 note 6} Tacitus, , Hist. iv. 83Google Scholar.

^{page 277 note 7} Botti, G., Rapport sur le Musée Gréco-Romain ďAlexandrie, 1899, p. 54Google Scholar.

^{page 277 note 8} Sayce, A. H., P.S.B.A. x. 377Google Scholar.

^{page 277 note 9} See nos. ii. and iii.

^{page 277 note 10} C.I.G. iii. 4969.

^{page 278 note 1} C.I.G. iii. 4863^c.

^{page 278 note 2} C.I.G. iii. 4962.

^{page 278 note 3} Bouriant, U., Mém. Miss. Arch. Franc. viii. 3Google Scholar, 366.

^{page 278 note 4} e.g. B.G.U. 193: O.P. 95.

^{page 278 note 5} O.P. 273.

^{page 278 note 6} Ibid.

^{page 278 note 7} O.P. 261.

^{page 278 note 8} Pap. B.M. 298 Wilcken corrects the first word to Τϵιχαναβάτιος (Archiv für Papyrusforschung. i. 159).

^{page 278 note 9} Wilcken, , Griech. Ostr. i. c. iv. §15Google Scholar.

^{page 282 note 1} Jouguet restored the name in an inscription from Hermopolis Magna in the Ghizeh Museum, no. 9296, published in B.C.H. xx. 197.

^{page 282 note 2} See Petrie, , Religion and Conscience, p. 26Google Scholar.

^{page 283 note 1} E.g. Louvre pap. 5⁵11.

^{page 283 note 2} No. 10231.

^{page 284 note 1} Oxyrhynchus Pap. ii. p. 221.

^{page 284 note 2} Alexandria Museum, no. 108.

^{page 285 note 1} Hdt. ii. 178.

^{page 285 note 2} Hdt. ii. 50.

^{page 285 note 3} C. I. G. iii. 4893; Strack, M. L., Dyn. Ptol. p. 251Google Scholar, no. 95: C.I.L. iii. 75.

^{page 285 note 4} Mahaffy, J. P., Hermathena, 1896, p. 273Google Scholar.

^{page 285 note 5} Turin pap. 1.

^{page 285 note 6} B.M. Cat. Coins, ‘Alexandria,’ 132.

^{page 286 note 1} See Mahaffy, , Hist. of Egypt, iv. 219Google Scholar.

^{page 290 note 1} Hist. Eccl. ii. 26.

^{page 290 note 2} See R. S. Poole, B.M. Cat. Coins, ‘Alexandria’ p. lxvi.

^{page 290 note 3} Berlin Museum, no. 9008.

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