Description: Lower part of a marble base, moulded below, broken in three pieces, (w:
1.03 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.285),and inscribed apparently on 3 occasions: firstly (perhaps) with the dedication C.432;
then with this list; then overcut with graffiti, C.433.
Text: Formal text inscribed on one face, in neat columns; there is a consistent space between names and patronymics. In column
1, lines 5 and 6 violate the approximately alphabetic order in which the names are arranged and are later additions;
since the cutting of column 1, line 5 is not distinguishable from that of the main text and that of column 1, line 6 not seriously
so (though the name is in larger letters than the patronymic),
these three names were probably added by the cutter himself to repair his omission,
but in column 3, line 3, Φιλόδαμον is cut over Φιλόδημον: in column 4, line 5 the final Α of Ὠρίωνα is lightly cut, perhaps
by a later hand and certainly in correction of an omission.
Letters: First century BCE - Augustan.
Date: First century BCE - Augustan.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
about 150m from the City wall, south west of the Agora on the road to Beida
(so Oliverio, notes);
found in 1915.
Original location: Given the findspot it is no doubt presumably a stray from the Gymnasium beside the Caesareum.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
Apparatus
Column.1,.3: Λύσ[ιππ]ον Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961Column.1,.4: Λύκον Ἀυτοκράτευς Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961; . . . ]κον Ἀριστομένε[υς SEG
Column.4,.3: Εὐρυ[ . . . Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961
Column.4,.4: Θαλι[ . . . Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961
Column.4,.6: Φαμου[ . . . Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961 Perhaps thinking of Φαμου[θιος
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Column 1) [ . . . -]os (scil. son) of Lysippos, Lykos (scil. son) of Aristomenes, Hekataios (scil. son) of Hekataios, Philokles (scil. son) of Philokles.
(Column 2) [ . . . ] Iason (scil. son) of Karnis, Iesous (scil. son) of Antiphilos, Ithannuras (scil. son) of Apollodoros, Orion (scil. son) of Orion.
(Column 3) [ . . . ] Philiskos (scil. son) of Karnis, Philoxenos (scil. son) of Alexandros, Philodamos (scil. son) of Philodamos, Philon (scil. son) of Aristonymos, Philon (scil. son) of Eirenaios.
(Column 4) [ . . . ] Philon (scil. son) of The[- . . . ], Philon (scil. son) of The[- . . .], Charitimos (scil. son) of Eury[ptolemos], Chartadas (scil. son) of Thali[archos], Orion (scil. son) of Phamos [. . .
Commentary
This is clearly a list of Ephebes, inscribed on a stele bore a dedication to Hermes and Herakles as gods of the Gymnαsium, C.432.The use of the accusative for the names is unusual. Ιt was subsequently overcut with ephebic graffiti (C.433)
The names include one which is certainly Jewish (a, col.2, line 2) cf. also in an ephebic context C.145, line 5 and line 13, of similar date. For further discussion see Lüderitz (loc.cit.). It also contains several distinctively native names .
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961, 6, p. 19, whence SEG 20.740, with readings by Reynolds, PHI 324496, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.363, Reynolds, 1972, 46; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 6.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
