Xois (Delta region, Egypt — Pleiades map), 165-145 BCE
SB II 6664
= SEG 2 (1924), no. 871
= PHI 222879
= AGRW ID# 20516
Copenhagen Inventory info: 187
On behalf of king Ptolemy and Queen Kleopatra, his sister, Philemetores (“Mother-loving”) gods, and their children, this was dedicated to Zeus Basileus (“King”) and to the other ancestral gods by Kaphisodoros son of Kaphisodoros, Boeotian who is chief of the body guard (archisōmatophylax), commander of the Xoitan district, and priest of the corporate body (politeuma); by that man’s sons, Metrophanes and Ptolemaios, the successors (diadochoi) and announcers (eisangelleis); and, by the Boeotians gathered together in Xois and the fellow members of the corporate body (hoi sympoliteumomenoi), whose names are written on this monument (stele), the sanctuary (temenos) and adjacent structures.
Translation by: HarlandItem added: December 16, 2015
Item modified: May 26, 2021
ID number: 20516
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