Seleucus, son of Bithys
Seleukos (
Ptolemaic
governor of Cyprus and admiral in the second century BC.
Life
Seleucus had citizenship of
nauarchos) in the Ptolemaic navy – as stated by at least three inscriptions.[3] He retained the governorship and the admiralty until around 130 BC when he must have died at an advanced age. His successor was Crocus
.
Family
Seleucus was married to Artemo I, daughter of Theodorus, who had the priestly role of 'basket-bearer' (kanephoros) of the deified Arsinoe II in Alexandria in 177/6 BC.[4] She had a son and two daughters:
- Theodorus, who later also served as governor of Cyprus.[5]
- Olympias I, priestess of Arsinoe III in Alexandria in 107/6 BC.[6]
- Artemo II, priestess of Arsinoe III in Alexandria some time between 141–115 BC and priestess of Cleopatra III between 142 and 131 BC.[7]
References
- ^ Fouilles de Delphes III.4.161 = OGIS 150.
- ^ See Mitford (1961), p. 27, no. 70 and 71. The dedicatory inscriptions of the statues survive and are stored in the Epigraphical Museum in Athens (KM 19, 43, & 60).
- ^ Inschriften von Olympia 301 = OGIS 151. I.Kourion 45 = OGIS 152. Jean Pouilloux, Paul Roesch, Jean Marcillet-Jaubert: Salamine de Chypre XIII. Testimonia Salaminia, 2. Corpus épigraphique. Paris 1987, no. 76 = OGIS 153.
- ^ British Museum EA 10518. PP III/IX 5038.
- ^ Jean Pouilloux, Paul Roesch, Jean Marcillet-Jaubert: Salamine de Chypre XIII. Testimonia Salaminia, 2. Corpus épigraphique. Paris 1987, no. 89 = OGIS 154. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13.589 = OGIS 155. Mitford (1961), no. 78 = OGIS 156 & 158. Mitford (1961), p. 31, no. 83 = OGIS 157. Jean Pouilloux, Paul Roesch, Jean Marcillet-Jaubert: Salamine de Chypre XIII. Testimonia Salaminia, 2. Corpus épigraphique. Paris 1987, no. 79 = OGIS 161.
- ^ PP III 5220.
- ^ See Glanville & Skeat, pp. 54–56; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13.587 = OGIS 159; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13, 557 = OGIS 160; PP III/IX 5039.
Bibliography
- Roger S. Bagnall: The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt. (1976) pp. 258–259.
- Willy Clarysse, E. van’t Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica III: Le clergé, le notariat, les tribunaux, no. 4984–8040 (PP III) (1956).
- Willy Clarysse: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Vol. IX: Addenda et Corrigenda au volume III. (PP III/IX) (1981).
- Wilhelm Dittenberger: Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae. (OGIS) Vol. 1 (1903), No. 150–161, pp. 229–237.
- S. R. K. Glanville and T. C. Skeat: "Eponymous Priesthoods of Alexandria from 211 B.C." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 40 (1954) pp. 45–58.
- Ludwig Koenen: "Kleopatra III. als Priesterin des Alexanderkultes (P. Colon. inv. nr. 5063)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 5 (1970) pp. 61–84.
- T. B. Mitford: "Seleucus and Theodorus." Opuscula Atheniensia. Vol. 1, 1953, pp. 130–171.
- T. B. Mitford: "The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos." The Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 56 (1961), pp. 1–41.
- Pauly–WissowaII A.1 col. 1247.