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The Bucheum Stelae: A Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

W. W. Tarn
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A remark on p. 117 of this Journal for 1936, made by Mr. A. H. M. Jones in a review of The Bucheum has reminded me that I have never given my reasons for the view taken by me in CAH x, 36, regarding stela no. 13 from the Bucheum, reasons which could not of course be given in CAH itself; and, as readers of my chapter will find no reference there to any of the other stelae, I am glad of the opportunity of stating why that is so. Sometime before 1932 Professor Glanville brought stela no. 13 to my notice (I think it was exhibited somewhere) and with it a translation, which I used in writing my chapter. Late in 1932 I had some correspondence with Mr. Fairman, who was about to return to Egypt; he told me there was a whole series of stelae and kindly lent me his notes.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 1936 , pp. 187 - 189
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Copyright ©W. W. Tarn 1936. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 The Bucheum, by SirMond, Robert and Myers, O. H., 1934Google Scholar. Vol. ii contains the inscriptions, by H. W. Fairman.

2 Nos. 10, Ptolemy VII Euergetes II; 11, Ptolemy VIII Soter II (Lathyrus); 12, Ptolemy XI (Auletes).

3 OGIS 111; see Bevan, E. R., A history of Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty, pp. 292–4Google Scholar.

4 ‘Other places ’; Bevan, ibid.

5 If ‘the boats of the king’ in the formula mean warships. Were I writing now, I should change or modify the statement that Cleopatra was ‘at the head of her fleet’; though doubtless she would have had a personal escort of warships.