The paper reassesses a famous bilingual honorific decree issued issued at Thebes for Kallimachos son of Kallimachos, the member of an elite family of Ptolemais Hermiou and the strategos of the Perithebas nome, around 40 BCE. The decree was issued by the priests of Amun-Re at Karnak and the local community of Thebes and praises Kallimachos for his euergetic activity towards Thebes, the people of the Thebaid, and the local temples. As a consequence, Kallimachos receives honours comparable to a certain extent to those for Greek or Egyptian holders of monarchic power: the Macedonian basileis or the indigenous pharaohs. We reconsider this peculiar document and its historical context in light of comparison with both Egyptian auto-biographical traditions and the contemporanous trends of honourific decrees in late-Hellenistic Greek cities.
Stratēgos Kallimachos II of the Thebaid: the Honours for a Royal Local Official in the Context of the Epigraphical Records from the Hellenistic World
stefano caneva
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2025
Abstract
The paper reassesses a famous bilingual honorific decree issued issued at Thebes for Kallimachos son of Kallimachos, the member of an elite family of Ptolemais Hermiou and the strategos of the Perithebas nome, around 40 BCE. The decree was issued by the priests of Amun-Re at Karnak and the local community of Thebes and praises Kallimachos for his euergetic activity towards Thebes, the people of the Thebaid, and the local temples. As a consequence, Kallimachos receives honours comparable to a certain extent to those for Greek or Egyptian holders of monarchic power: the Macedonian basileis or the indigenous pharaohs. We reconsider this peculiar document and its historical context in light of comparison with both Egyptian auto-biographical traditions and the contemporanous trends of honourific decrees in late-Hellenistic Greek cities.
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