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EGYPT AND
was born in 209, this dedication must, as Ditten-
berger remarks, fall between that date and 205 b.c.
1. 5. Εύαγρος. ‘ God of successful hunting.’ The
epithet is also applied to Pan (Lepsius, Denkmaler
aus Aegypten, xii, Pl. 81, No. 131, quoted by D.).
1. 6. Opoarrev? for Opoar^eA, a native of Oroanda
in Pisidia.
1. 7. ‘Sent out with the general Charimortos as
vice-commander.’ Dittenberger is no doubt right
in interpreting δία'δοχο? as vicarins. Should Chari-
mortos die or be incapacitated, Alexander was to
succeed him.
1. 9. The hunting of elephants (no doubt for use
in war) is mentioned in other Ptolemaic inscriptions,
e. g. the Adulis inscription of Ptolemy III (Ditten-
berger, Op. cit. No. 54, 1. 10): καί ίλεφακτωι/ 7ρωγλο-
δυτικών καί Αίθιοπικών, ούί ο τε πατήρ αύτοΰ και αυτοί
πρώτο(ι) εκ των χωρών τούτων εθηρευσαν καί καταγαγόντες
είί Αίγυπτον κατεσκεύασαν προς την πολεμικήν χρείαν,
and Hid. No. 82 (a dedication similar to the present);
cf. I'ipigr. i, p. 153 (De Ricci), and see Diodorus,
THE SUDAN.
iii. 36. 3. Ί he scene of hunting operations was
the Red Sea coast and Somaliland (Hall, Ciass. Rev.,
loc. cit. p. 275).
1. 10. A native of Etenna in Pisidia.
Cf. the coins of that place with the inscription
ETEN ΝΕΩΝ (Hill, B. M. Coins of Lycia, p. cxix).
Apoasis was in subordinate command of the soldiers
(ργεμων} under Charimortos and Alexander.
The presence of soldiers from Pisidia in the
service of the Ptolemies is interesting. Mercenaries
from Pisidia were freely engaged in the Mediter-
ranean world (Hall, loc. cit. p. 278).
In general cf. Strabo, xvi. 15, c. 774: εισί και
στήλαι και βωμοί Πυθολάου και Αίχα και Πυθαγγελου και
Αεοντοί και Χαριμόρτου κατα την γνώριμον παραλίαν την
από Δειρήί μ^χρί- Νότου κερως.
Wilhelm (Class. Rev. xiii, p. 79) notes that a son
of Apoasis is mentioned in an inscription given in
Neroutsos Bey, L· ancienne Alexandrie, p. 115 : 'Ρώιζις
’Αποάσιοί ’ Ετεννεύς.
MLXV.
ROSETTA.
1065. Slab of black basalt, broken away at the top r. and 1., and bottom r., corners. The top was probably rounded and sculptured
with a figure of heaven, disk of Horos, and two pendant uraei. The stone was found (as it is said) in 1799 by a French officer of
Engineers a few miles north of the Arab town of Rashid (Rosetta). It was surrendered to the British on the capitulation of
Alexandria in 1801. Ht. 3 ft. 9 in.; width 2 ft. 4|in.; depth 11 in. C. I. G. 4697 ; Dittenberger, Or. Gr. Inscr. i, No. 90, where
the previous literature is given; Budge, Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vols. i and ii; The Roseiia Stone, 1904; Mahaffy, Hist,
of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynl, p. 152 ff. The stone is inscribed in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek, the last of which alone
is given here. [Dept. No. 24.]
Tir^»
t Xi TMHH 0< if γ H OHCt
LnSa «Mr < N-r At»
lllll
EGYPT AND
was born in 209, this dedication must, as Ditten-
berger remarks, fall between that date and 205 b.c.
1. 5. Εύαγρος. ‘ God of successful hunting.’ The
epithet is also applied to Pan (Lepsius, Denkmaler
aus Aegypten, xii, Pl. 81, No. 131, quoted by D.).
1. 6. Opoarrev? for Opoar^eA, a native of Oroanda
in Pisidia.
1. 7. ‘Sent out with the general Charimortos as
vice-commander.’ Dittenberger is no doubt right
in interpreting δία'δοχο? as vicarins. Should Chari-
mortos die or be incapacitated, Alexander was to
succeed him.
1. 9. The hunting of elephants (no doubt for use
in war) is mentioned in other Ptolemaic inscriptions,
e. g. the Adulis inscription of Ptolemy III (Ditten-
berger, Op. cit. No. 54, 1. 10): καί ίλεφακτωι/ 7ρωγλο-
δυτικών καί Αίθιοπικών, ούί ο τε πατήρ αύτοΰ και αυτοί
πρώτο(ι) εκ των χωρών τούτων εθηρευσαν καί καταγαγόντες
είί Αίγυπτον κατεσκεύασαν προς την πολεμικήν χρείαν,
and Hid. No. 82 (a dedication similar to the present);
cf. I'ipigr. i, p. 153 (De Ricci), and see Diodorus,
THE SUDAN.
iii. 36. 3. Ί he scene of hunting operations was
the Red Sea coast and Somaliland (Hall, Ciass. Rev.,
loc. cit. p. 275).
1. 10. A native of Etenna in Pisidia.
Cf. the coins of that place with the inscription
ETEN ΝΕΩΝ (Hill, B. M. Coins of Lycia, p. cxix).
Apoasis was in subordinate command of the soldiers
(ργεμων} under Charimortos and Alexander.
The presence of soldiers from Pisidia in the
service of the Ptolemies is interesting. Mercenaries
from Pisidia were freely engaged in the Mediter-
ranean world (Hall, loc. cit. p. 278).
In general cf. Strabo, xvi. 15, c. 774: εισί και
στήλαι και βωμοί Πυθολάου και Αίχα και Πυθαγγελου και
Αεοντοί και Χαριμόρτου κατα την γνώριμον παραλίαν την
από Δειρήί μ^χρί- Νότου κερως.
Wilhelm (Class. Rev. xiii, p. 79) notes that a son
of Apoasis is mentioned in an inscription given in
Neroutsos Bey, L· ancienne Alexandrie, p. 115 : 'Ρώιζις
’Αποάσιοί ’ Ετεννεύς.
MLXV.
ROSETTA.
1065. Slab of black basalt, broken away at the top r. and 1., and bottom r., corners. The top was probably rounded and sculptured
with a figure of heaven, disk of Horos, and two pendant uraei. The stone was found (as it is said) in 1799 by a French officer of
Engineers a few miles north of the Arab town of Rashid (Rosetta). It was surrendered to the British on the capitulation of
Alexandria in 1801. Ht. 3 ft. 9 in.; width 2 ft. 4|in.; depth 11 in. C. I. G. 4697 ; Dittenberger, Or. Gr. Inscr. i, No. 90, where
the previous literature is given; Budge, Decrees of Memphis and Canopus, vols. i and ii; The Roseiia Stone, 1904; Mahaffy, Hist,
of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynl, p. 152 ff. The stone is inscribed in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek, the last of which alone
is given here. [Dept. No. 24.]
Tir^»
t Xi TMHH 0< if γ H OHCt
LnSa «Mr < N-r At»
lllll