IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.330. Ephebic names

Description: One of a group of sandstone blocks and fragments found re-used in the walls of modern buildings in the village; w: 1.20 x h: 0.58 x d: 0.40.
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Line 1, 0.012 and 0.09; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.06; probably four hands.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: modern village, near the former Commando del Presidio; found before 1941.
Original location: Probably a gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]ος ( vac. 5) (ἔτους) ζ´ Πρά̣ξιμ[ος]
(ἔτους) ζ´ Αἰάλαν ( vac. 3) Ἔκφαντος
[---]Σ
(ἔτους) β´ Μείμα[ς?]

Diplomatic

[---]ΟΣ           L ΖΠΡ.ΞΙΜ[..]
L ΖΑΙΑΛΑΝ      ΕΚΦΑΝΤΟΣ
[---]Σ
L ΒΜΕΙΜΑ[.]

Apparatus

2: L ζ΄ (Φ)αιαλάν Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- os. Anno 7. Fealàn. Anno 2. Mimas - Anno 7. Praximos. Ecfanto

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Left column: . . .]os. Year 7, Aialan. . . .]s. Year 2, Meimas.

Right column: Year 7, Praximos. Ekphantos

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 526 (50), p. 255, whence SEG 9.401, PHI 324250.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).