<idno xml:id="PHRC017" type="filename">PHRC017</idno><rs type="title">: Dedication to Arsinoe Philadelphos, Paros</rs> <rs type="region">Cyclades</rs> <rs type="time">(270-240 BC)</rs> <location n="37.08579,25.150728"/> <rs type="textType" n="space.xml#_dedication">Dedication</rs> Stefano Caneva, on 04.04.2019 Practicalities of Hellenistic Ruler Cults, Marie Curie PISCOPIA project no. PISC14IGRU, University of Padova (2015-2017), FNRS project no. 98368 (2017-2020). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement n° 600376 (2015-2017), and from the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Belgium (2017-2020).

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 Archaeological Museum of Paros Block Broken in several points. In IG XII 5, Hiller von Gaertringen erroneously describes it as a 'tabula votiva'. Limestone Height: max. 19 Width: max. 30 Depth: 20

Text written in two lines. The stonecutter did not have enough space for the last Y, which he placed under the O.

Large and shallow letters. No indication is given about the letter shape.

Letter height between 1.8 cm (0) and 3.2 cm (Φ).

 Paros Between 270 and 240 BC Justification: Formulary and lettering Found by de Ridder in a private house near the Church of Agios Eustathios. English Ancient Greek Latin French German Modern Greek Italian
Bibliography

Text constituted from: IG XII 5, 264.

Other editions: de Ridder 1897, p. 17, no. 3.

See also: Caneva 2014, no. 45; Caneva 2020.

Images: IG XII 5, 264 (drawing).

Further bibliography:

Online record: PHI

This block bears one of the three preserved genitive dedications to Arsinoe Philadelphos from Paros. It probably was inserted in a bigger structure, an altar or a wall.

Text Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου
Apparatus

Φιλαδέλφο[υ] de Ridder

Translation

(S. Caneva)

Of Arsinoe Philadelphos

Traduzione

(S. Caneva)

Di Arsinoe Philadelphos

Traduction

Commentary

This inscribed block bears one of the three genitive dedications to Arsinoe from Paros (cf. IG XII 5, 265, marble; IG XII 5, 266 = PHRC016, limestone). The stone was already heavily damaged at the time of its discovery, so the question rises of whether it was originally a block meant to be inserted in a bigger structure (an altar or a wall), or a small altar that has been later reworked to be turned into building material. Comparison with the Aegean documentation of the dedications to Arsinoe Philedelphos makes the first hypothesis more probable.