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OGIS: 172


PAPHOS HONOURS ONESANDROS

Greek text:   ABSA_56.40.110 
Date:    88  B.C.
Format:   see key to translations

For some comments about Onesandros, see R.S. Bagnall, "The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt", p. 70 ( Google Books ).   There is a German translation of the inscription by S. Pfeiffer, "Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus", no. 35 ( Google Books ).


To Paphian Aphrodite.   The city of Paphos honours Onēsandros son of Nausikrates, the kinsman and priest for life of king Ptolemaios the god Soter and of the Ptolemaian temple founded by him, the secretary of the city of Paphos, who has been appointed to be in charge of the great library in Alexandria (?) on account of his goodwill.  

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