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TM Geo 831
Libya (Cyrenaica)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: CyrenaicaThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located a city of the Pentapolis (TM Geo 6482)
32.12452,20.06425 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, Nomisma, Pleiades, Pleiades [2], Talbert Peutinger, ToposText, Wikipedia, Wikipedia [2]
Status: city: polis
Greek name(s): Ἑσπερίς - Βερενίκη
Latin name(s): Berenice - Berenicide - Beronice - Hesperidae
Ethnic(s): Hesperites - Berenikeus (aph’ Hesperidon)
Modern name(s): Benghazi
Variants: Hesperis - Hesperides - Euhesperis - Euhesperides - Euesperides - Berenike (Berenicis) - Benghazi (Bengazi - Bengasi)
Repertoria: Dizionario II, p. 180; Suppl. 1, p. 115
Biblio: RE s.v. Berenike 8; PP X, 2002, p. 39; p. 73-74; p. 317; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 203 no. 26
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 54 (Berenike [Cyrenaica]); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 38 B1 (Berenice & Euesperides)
Note: Hesperis was renamed Berenike, after the wife of Ptolemaios III
TM GeoRef | Publication | Attestation | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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43325 | I. Syr. 162 bis, 6 - 7 | Ἱσπερίτηςcontext: 'Andriskos Hesperites' → status: ethnicon → biblio: PP X, 2002, no. E0575 | stone | Greek | BC04 - BC01 | Egypt, U04b - Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Valley of the Kings [find place, place of writing & preservation] |
47298 | SB 5 8120, 1 | Ἑσπερ̣ί̣τηςcontext: 'Aristobios Hesperites' → status: ethnicon → biblio: PP X, 2002, no. E0577 | stone (limestone) | Greek | BC04 - BC01 | Egypt, L00 - Alexandria, Hadra [found & written] |
46566 | SB 1 598, 2 | Βερενικεὺς ἀφʼ Ἑσπερίδωνcontext: 'Xenaratos son of Charmantios Berenikeus aph' Hesperidon' → status: ethnicon → biblio: PP X, 2002, no. E0315; Audrey, ZPE 209 (2019), p. 132 n. 5 → note: Audrey incorrectly identifies with the demos U08 Berenikeus (428) | stone | Greek | BC03 | Egypt, L00 - Alexandria [found & written] |
240475 | IG XII.4.5 3987, 1 | [Β]ερεν[ικέα]context: '[NN] Berenikeus' → status: ethnicon | stone | Greek | BC03 | Greece, Sporades - Kalymna [found & written] |
69303 | P. Hamb. 2 187, 1 | Ἑσπερείτης τ̣ῆ̣ς̣ ἐπιγονῆςcontext: 'Theodoros son of Kallikrates Hesperites of the epigone' → status: ethnicon → biblio: PP X, 2002, no. E0580 | papyrus | Demotic / Greek | BC03 | Egypt, U19 - Tholthis [Kato] (Talt) (?) [written] Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchites (?) [found] |
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