Career
Stratonice is an unattested person and is only known through surviving evidence. The record is dated from ca. 283 British Columbia-278 British Columbia and is on display in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria.
The inscription below translated in Greek and English reads:
ὑπὲρ βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου
τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης
Σωτήρων Άρχάγαθος Άγαθοκλέους
ὁ ἐπιστάτης τῆς Λιβύης
καὶ ἡ γυνὴ Στρατονίκη
Σαράπιδι Ἴσιδι τὸ τέμενος.
King Ptolemy
son of Ptolemy and Berenice
the Saviours Archagathus son of Agathocles
epistates of Libya
Serapis, Isis of temenos. Stratonice made a dedication, to Ptolemy II’s sister the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoe World War II The text from the Roman copy below translated in Greek and English reads:
Βασίλισσαν Ὰρσινόην βασιλέως
Πτολεμαίου καί βασιλίσσης Βερενίκης
Στρατονίκη βασιλέως Δημητρίου
Queen Arsinoe daughter of King
Ptolemy and Queen Berenice
Stratonice daughter of King Demetrius
The inscription reveals she was a daughter of a King Demetrius and there is a possibility that she could identified as an otherwise-unknown daughter of Greek Macedonian King Demetrius I Poliorcetes.
According to the suggestions of L. Morretti (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits 93, 1965, 73) and R.S. Bagnall (Philologus 120, 1976, 195) that Stratonice may have been the sister of Alexander, son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes and Deidamia. Alexander lived his remaining life as an honorary hostage in Egypt and Stratonice may have accompanied him to Egypt.
Stratonice may have been the same Stratonice who had a celebrated Mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria and was a later mistress of Ptolemy World War II