Arsinoe (Greek: Ἀρσινόη) was a city of ancient Crete controlled by Lyctus according to the Stephanus of Byzantium. This town is believed to belong to the Hellenistic period. According to some scholars, it was adjacent to (and perhaps overlaying) the older city of Rhithymna,[1] but this identification is not really certain.[2]
Berkelius supposes that an error had crept into the text, and that for Λύκτου we should read Λυκίας. Its identification with Rhithymna was first proposed by Eckhel.[4]Georges Le Rider in 1968[5] established from numismatic evidence that the city of Rithymna was refounded at some point in the 3rd century BCE as Arsinoe. The evidence entails similar series of coins with the names of each city as well as find spots for the Arsinoe coins being in the regions around Rithymna. The exact refoundation date is less sure but Le Rider puts it in the reign of Ptolemy Philometer.
Roger S. Bagnall notes that this may be the same Arsinoe that appears as a Cretan city in a Magnesian inscription (I. Magn. 21 8) of 200 BCE.[6] Bagnall says that the city of Rithymna reverted to its original name by the time of the Delphic Theorodoktoi lists of the early 2nd century BCE.
There remains a possibility of another place being the Arsinoe in Crete as per the testimony of Stephanus of Byzantium, noted in Le Rider's article. Getzel M. Cohen suggests some other possible locations.[7]
^Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (Volume 17 of Hellenistic culture and society). University of California Press, 1995 ISBN0520914082 p132
^Bagnall, The administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt, p. 120 ISBN90-04-04490-6
^Georges Le Rider, Les Arsinoeens De Crete, pp 229–240 in Essays In Greek Coinage Presented To Stanley Robinson, Ed. by: Colin Mackennal Kraay & George Francis Jenkins, Oxford, UK (1968)
^The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt By Roger S. Bagnall, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Belgium (1976)
^Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (Volume 17 of Hellenistic culture and society). University of California Press, 1995 ISBN0520914082 p132
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