IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.62. 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.61, M.63.
Text: Graffiti
Letters: a: lunate sigma; b: square sigma; e: lunate sigma, cursive omega; f: 0.08; g. cursive omega, L for ἔτους; h: lunate epsilon and sigma; j: cursive omega; k: 0.03 – 0.05, lunate sigma and epsilon, cursive omega, perhaps two hands; line 0.05.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

a
ἡ̣ ν̣ίκ̣η Νικηφόροϲ
b
Αὐρήλιοϲ Ἰόλ̣λ̣[αϲ?]
c
[---]Π̣Ι̣Ν̣Τ̣Ι̣Α̣Σ̣Κ̣Ο̣Κ̣Α̣[..]ΑΙ[---]
d
[---]Ν̣Α̣Λ̣Ι̣Ν̣Δ̣Ι̣Ο̣Α̣Ν̣Ο̣Τ̣Ο̣Ι̣Ν̣[---]
e
[---] φίλοιϲ ΑΙ[---]
[---]ΝΑΝΝΑΩΦΙΛΙϹΔΑ[---]
[---]ΟΧΩΛΟϹ Ἰτθαννυρας
f
[---] Λουκιανὸ̣ς̣
( vac. 3) ἱππεύς
g
(ἔτους) ιη´ Παχὼν κδ´ Βιβ[---]
h
[--- τεϲ]ϲεράριο[ϲ ---]
j
[---]ΔΑΚΙΛΙΩ̣Ν̣[---]
k
Θεύδωρος Κρίϲποϲ ϲτρατιώτηϲ
l
Ἀνδρόνικος̣
Ἡλιοδώρου
m
Μαλλυλᾶς στρατιώτης

Diplomatic

a
..Ι.ΗΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟϹ
b
ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹΙΟ..[..]
c
[---]...........[··]ΑΙ[---]
d
[---]...............[---]
e
[---]ΦΙΛΟΙϹΑΙ[---]
[---]ΝΑΝΝΑΩΦΙΛΙϹΔΑ[---]
[---]ΟΧΩΛΟϹΙΤΘΑΝΝΥΡΑΣ
f
[---]ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝ..
      ΙΠΠΕΥΣ
g
L ΙΗΠΑΧΩΝΚΔΒΙΒ[---]
h
[---...]ϹΕΡΑΡΙΟ[.---]
j
[---]ΔΑΚΙΛΙ..[---]
k
ΘΕΥΔΩΡΟΣΚΡΙϹΠΟϹϹΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΗϹ
l
ΑΝΔΡΟΝΙΚΟ.
ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ
m
ΜΑΛΛΥΛΑΣΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΗΣ

Apparatus

a: τῃ νίκῃ Goodchild, 1953 but lunate sigma is clear.
k: κρίσπου Goodchild, 1953 but lunate sigma is clear.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): ?Victory, Nikephoros;

(b): Aurelios (i.e. Aurelius) Iollas;

(c, d): (Not usefully translatable);

(e): . . . ] to friends [ . . . ] Itthanuras;

(f): . . . ] Loukianos (i.e. Lucianus), cavalryman;

(g): Year 18, Pachon 24, [ . . .;

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

(j): (Not usefully translatable);

(k): Theudoros, Krispos (i.e. Crispus) soldier;

(l): Andronikos (scil. son) of Heliodoros;

(m): Mallulas, soldier;

Commentary

For these inscriptions see further on M.56.

g. k. There may be two separate graffiti.

Bibliography: k, i, Goodchild, 1953 Appendix, 8 and 7, p.76 whence SEG 13.620; reprinted, Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976, 207, fig. 61, p. 198 and pl. 66-69; e, f, g, m, Reynolds, 1971a, 6, 10, 2, 5, whence SEG 26.1847, PHI 324738, SEG 26.1852, PHI 324743, SEG 26.1844, PHI 324735, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.794, (f)AE 1974.685
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of the left side of the wall

   Fig. 2. View of the right side of the wall


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