Adnotationes epigraphicae V (< Adn. Tyche> 37–44)

Abstract:

Kom Aushim inv. no. 521 is a large limestone block that preserves the partial remains of a dedicatory inscription to the god Soxis and was published by Guy Wagner and SAA El-Nassery in 19751. While recently examining this inscription in the Kom Aushim magazine I compared the transcription provided by Wagner and El-Nassery with the actual inscription and noticed that there was an error in the published edition of this text that has never been corrected2. It occurs in the first extant line of the transcription where there is a misreading of the first word that consequently changes the titulature, which is lost, but preceded the first line of extant text. The mutually agreed reading for the beginning of the first line of text is λαδελφω. Wagner and El-Nassery then read Iota which consequently lead them to the following reconstruction:[βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι θεῶι Φιλοπάτορι καὶ Φι]| λαδέλφωι…. As noted in the article they settle on this reconstruction primarily because of the paleography of the text, which suggests a late Ptolemaic date, and because there are numerous inscriptional references to Ptolemy XII Auletes Philopater Philadelphos3. However, the reconstructed form of the titulature they provide is a little odd, not least because they cannot provide a compelling contextual parallel, but also because the reconstruction is unusual in a dedicatory inscription of the type we are dealing with here. Most often dedicatory inscriptions of that type begin with the preposition ὑπέρ so that the following titulature is governed by the genitive case4. Based on an examination of the actual inscription it is evident that they have misread the first word, which changes the …

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2014

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