In the text of the Ektheosis Arsinoes, as we have it, the name of the title character does not appear at all. Although it may be the result of the poem’s fragmentary state of preservation, it seems to be consistent with Callimachus’s stylistic preferences. This article suggests that the missing name ARSINOA can be detected in an anagram hidden in the first half of line 46.
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Jerzy Danielewicz (2017) studied this question.