IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.316. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block, chipped at the edges (w: 0.55 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.15). Since line 1 is sliced horizontally and the text is incomplete to the left, the block may have been cut down for re-use.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century: line 1, 0.125; lines2,3, 0.032; ;two hands.

Date: First-second cent

Findspot: Ptolemais: Village, by the seashore, east of the old police station; found in 1969.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

i
[---]Λ̣ MB ((stop)) (ἔτους) α´ ( vac. 1)
( vac. 1 line)
ii
[---]λας Ἰούνιος
[---]ατος φίλος πάντ[ων]

Diplomatic

i
[---].MB L Α  
     vacat
ii
[---]ΛΑΣΙΟΥΝΙΟΣ
[---]ΑΤΟΣΦΙΛΟΣΠΑΝΤ[..]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i). . . . ] Year 1.

(ii). . . . -]las Iounios [ . . . -]atas, friend of all.

Commentary

These are apparently ephebic graffiti; see on P.35.

Line 2: For 'friend of all' compare P.66, P.69.iii, and see on P.22.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. i and ii (1969, Reynolds NS.I.38)

   Fig. 2. ii (1969, Reynolds NS.I.37)