IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.135. Fragmentary ephebic ?names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.44 x h: 0.345 x d: 0.49). One of a group inscribed with P.127, P.128, P.129, P.130, P.131, P.132, P.133, P.134, P.135.
Text: Graffiti on one face; four different hands. Line 2 to the right of line 1; line 4 to the right of line 3.
Letters: Line 1, 0.16, lunate sigma,; lines 2, 4, 0.06; line 3, 0.10; four bar sigma in lines 2,3,4.

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments, re-used in late buildings; found in 1935/6.
Original location: ?A gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Lying loose in the street.

Interpretive

[---]οϲ
Σ
[---]ΙΣ
ΔΟΣ

Diplomatic

[---]ΟϹ
Σ
[---]ΙΣ
ΔΟΣ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.6; NB V.5)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.6; NB V.7)

   Fig. 3. From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135

   Fig. 4. From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135