Description: Water-worn fragment of a panel of white marble
(w:
0.08 x h:
0.09 x d:
0.035).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second-third century CE: 0.007; cursive epsilon and lunate sigma; poorly cut.
Date: Second-third century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia: Loose on the sea shore;
found in 1962.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
Apparatus
1: or possibly . . . Ἀ]κίλι[οϲ . . .English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . Cae]cilius (or [A]cilius) [ . . . ] Annius [ . . . ] T(itus) Flavius [ . . . ] T(itus) Flavius [ . . . ] T(itus) Flavius [ . . . ] Gerellanus [ . . . ] Annius [ . . . ]
Commentary
A list of names which, from the letter-sizes and the poor style of cutting, is more likely to refer to ephebes than to priests or other officials. The number of T. Flavii suggests that there was a distinct increase in the number of Apolloniates with Roman citizenship during the Flavian period.
l.6: The nomen Gerellanus is originally south-east Italian and was introduced to the Greek world by Italian negotiatores in the Republic, cf. J. Hazfeld, Les trafiquants italiens (1919) 392, A.J.N. Wilson, Emigration from Italy in the Republican Age of Rome (1966) 153; its presence seems to indicate connection between the trading family and Cyrenaica.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 56, whence SEG 27.1135.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Reynolds IX.37)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)