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Royal Correspondence: 21


LETTER OF PTOLEMAIOS II TO KOS

Original text:   Asylia_13
Date:     before 250 B.C.
Format:   see key to translations

The surviving fragments of this letter are somewhat puzzling. The words "sister Arsinoē" definitely suggest that the writer of the letter was Ptolemy II. But he died in 246 B.C.; and the other inscriptions concerning the inviolability of Kos are dated to 242-240 B.C.   K.Rigsby attempted to solve this problem by maintaining that this inscription was separate from the main archive of documents which were set up in Kos ( "Asylia", pp.108-9 - Google Books ).


. . . matters concerning the sacrifices . . . [our] sister Arsinoē . . . met with us . . . the festival . . . [(?) that there shall be inviolability for those going] to the Asklepieia now [and in the future] . . . we have written [to our subordinates] concerning [these matters] . . .

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