Description: Mosaic floor with a series of panels, with C.66, C.67, C.68,
C.69, C.70, C.71,
C.72, C.73.
Text: Mosaic lettering, within a circular roundel (0.48),
framed by a wreath, beside C.69.
Letters: Line 1 0.09; line 2, 0.07, line 3, 0.06; line 4, c. 0.08
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: House of Hesychios: on the floor of the West corridor.
Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Good Fortune to Hesychios the Libyarch!
Commentary
For this group of texts see on C.66.
This title is not otherwise attested in the Roman period. By analogy with similar formations such as Asiarch, Bithyniarch, Cretarch, it should be that of the "chairman" of the provincial κοινόν of the Libyan provinces. For provincial assemblies see Deingerger, Provinziallandtage (1965), and Edelman, Koina und Concilia (2015)
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1959, 4, p. 100-101, pl. VII, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1960.437, SEG 18.745, PHI 324447; Reynolds, 1960, 5.e, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, A.v. whence SEG 30.1785.1.e, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1e; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 165.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text
Fig. 2. Left view
Fig. 3. Right view