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C.54. Ephebic names

Description: The greater part of a moulded marble base, recomposed from four pieces (together, w: 0.62 x h: 0.33 x d: 0.34), with texts on three faces. Front face, C.51, C.52 and C.53; left face, C.54; reverse face, C.55 and C.56.
Text: Left hand face: graffiti in different hands.
Letters: 0.015-0.025; L for ἔτους

Date: Line 1: 24/25 CELine 5: 18/19 or 45/46 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: House of Jason Magnus, precise findspot unrecorded, apparently to the East; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ν̣ε´
Ἀπολλοφάνης [---] Εὐ-
μέν[η]ς Ὀνομάρ<χ?>ω
Πι[---]
5(ἔτους) ε´ Καρνεά̣δ̣ης Καρ[νεάδα]

Diplomatic

L
ΑΠΟΛΛΟΦΑΝΗΣ[---]ΕΥ
ΜΕΝ[.]ΣΟΝΟΜΑΡΩ
ΠΙ[---]
5 L ΕΚΑΡΝΕ..ΗΣΚΑΡ[.....]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 55. Apollophanes [ . . . ] Eumenes (scil. son) of Onomarchos. [ . . . ] Year 5, Karneades (scil. son) of Kar[neades]

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Unpublished; mentioned, with no text, Luni, 1976 p.278, note 156bis on 9bis and footnote 156bis
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).