Description: White marble base, with moulding above,
reused in 172-175 CE to support a stele bearing C.143.
Text: Graffiti cut on 3 faces:
a on upper moulding to the front, b on upper moulding of the left side.
c on the right side, on the face, upper (l.7) and lower (l.8) moulding.
Letters: At least eight different hands.
Date: CE 9/10-24/25
Findspot:
Cyrene;
from the Agora; found in 1988.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): Arimman Kartimachos
(b): Herakles (scil. son) of Jason
(c): Hagesios, year 40, (scil. son) of Barkaios (scil. son) of Damis; [ . . .] Year ? Year 5: ALK Year 5, Lykos (scil. son) of Ammonios; Year 10, (scil. also) year 55: Nasamon (scil. son) of Aialan.
Commentary
c: in lines 4 and 6, the mason abandoned cutting after a few letters
c.2. year 40 (Actian era) = 9/10 CE
c: in lines 4 and 6, the mason abandoned cutting after a few letters
c.6. year 5 (presumably a regnal year of Tiberius) = 19/20 CE
c. 6. ΑΛΚ: perhaps the beginning of Ἄλκις or a similar name.
c.7. double date: year 10 (presumably a regnal year of Tiberius), and also year 55 (Aktian era), so 24/25 CE Νασάμων and Αιαλαν: Libyan names (perhaps members of a Libyan family, Hellenized but still consciously proud of its origin); Νασάμων is related to the tribe of the Nasamones (known from literary sources as hostile to the Cyrenaicans!), but previously unattested as a personal name.
Bibliography: Mentioned Mohamed-Reynolds, 1992, 117-8; published Reynolds, 2000b, 1, whence SEG 50.1643
Text constituted from: Publication.
Images
Fig. 1. Face a (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001: MFA 01/11/18)
Fig. 2. Face b (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001: MFA 01/11/16)
Fig. 3. Face c (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001: MFA 01/11/15)
Fig. 4. Face c (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001: MFA 01/11/17)