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M.61. Military names

Description: Ashlar blocks in the wall of the fortress; other blocks are inscribed with M.56, M.57, M.58, M.59, M.60, M.62, M.63.
Text: Graffiti; a, b within a specially prepared area.
Letters: a: 0.04; b: 0.02; c: 0.05; d: 0.045 – 0.05, ligature; e: 0.05 – 0.06 L for ἔτους, square sigma for digamma, several hands; f: 0.06, several hands; g: L for ἔτους; j: lunate sigma, L for ἔτους.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: South of Berenike: Zawyiet Msus, in the Roman fort, on the east wall of the enclosure; first recorded in 1950.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (re-examined in 1969 and 1970).

Interpretive

a
Λύκος
Ἡρακλ-
ίδα
b
Ἐπι[---]
Μ[---]
Α̣Ρ[---]
c
[---] Ἀρτώριος [---]
d
[---] Κυρηναῖος [---]
e
Ἀλέξω̣ν̣ ΑΜ̣Μ Ἀρίμμα
Σ [---]
[---] (ἔτους) ϛι´
f
Δάχις Χ̣αλδαις Ἑρμαῖος
[Ἀ]π̣ο̣λ̣λ̣ω̣ν̣[ίου]
Ε̣[---]
Δέγμ̣[ο]ς Δέγ[μου]
g
(ἔτους) ι´ Ἀριστοτέλης [---]
h
[---] ἱππε̣[ύ]ς [---]
j
[---] ϲτρατιώτηϲ ἥκω (ἔτους) ι´

Diplomatic

a
ΛΥΚΟΣ
ΗΡΑΚΛ
ΙΔΑ
b
ΕΠΙ[---]
Μ[---]
.Ρ[---]
c
[---]ΑΡΤΩΡΙΟΣ[---]
d
[---]ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΟΣ[---]
e
ΑΛΕΞ..Α.ΜΑΡΙΜΜΑ
Σ[---]
[---] L ϚΙ
f
ΔΑΧΙΣ.ΑΛΔΑΙΣΕΡΜΑΙΟΣ
[.]......[...]
.[---]
ΔΕΓ.[.]ΣΔΕΓ[...]
g
L ΙΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ[---]
h
[---]ΙΠΠ.[.]Σ[---]
j
[---]ϹΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΗϹΗΚΩ L Ι

Apparatus

a.1: Λόκος Goodchild, 1953 whence SEG
e.1: Ἀλέξανδρος in LGPN V1-60841
f.1: ΕΡΝ Goodchild, 1953
f.2-4: Not recorded by Goodchild

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): Lykos (scil. son) of Heraklidas;

(b): (Not usefully translatable);

(c): . . . ] Artorios [ . . .;

(d): . . . ] Cyrenaean [ . . .;

(e): Alexandros (scil. son) of Arimmas [ . . . ] year 16;

(f): Dachis son of Chaldais; Hermaios (scil. son) of Apollonios [ . . . ]; Degmos (scil. son) of Degmos;

(g): Year 10, Aristoteles;

(h): . . . ] cavalryman [ . . .;

(j): . . . ] soldier, I came, year 10.[ . . .;

Commentary

For these inscriptions see further on M.56.

Bibliography: a, f, Goodchild, 1953 Appendix, 6 and 5, p. 76 whence SEG 13.620; reprinted, Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976, 207; e, f, g, Reynolds, 1971a, 4, 8, 3, whence SEG 26.1846, PHI 324737, SEG 26.1850, PHI 324741, SEG 26.1845, PHI 324736, (f, g) Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.794.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. e, face


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