IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.58. Fragmentary ?ephebic list

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.035)
Text: Inscribed on both faces; IGCyr 118000 on the other face.
Letters: 0.001

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: West Church; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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[---] ( vac. 4) Π̣ο̣[---]
[---] ( vac. 4) Χα[---]
[---]δ̣ης ( vac. 4) Μα[---]
[---]ώνιος ( vac. 4) Πόθ[ωνος]
5[---]ος ( vac. 4) Κ( vac. 1)αρν[εάδου]
[--- Σ]ωκλῆς ( vac. 4) Σωσά[νδρου]
[Στρά]των ( vac. 4) ⟦Ἁ̣ν̣δ̣ρ̣⟧[---]
[Καρ]νεάδης ( vac. 4) Ἀπολλ[---]
[---κ]ρ̣άτης ( vac. 4) Ἁλεξάν̣[δρου]
10[---]ος ( vac. 4) Διονυσ̣[ίου]
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Diplomatic

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[---]        ..[---]
[---]        ΧΑ[---]
[---].ΗΣ        ΜΑ[---]
[---]ΩΝΙΟΣ        ΠΟΘ[....]
5[---]ΟΣ        Κ  ΑΡΝ[.....]
[---.]ΩΚΛΗΣ        ΣΩΣΑ[.....]
[....]ΤΩΝ        ⟦....⟧[---]
[...]ΝΕΑΔΗΣ        ΑΠΟΛΛ[---]
[---.].ΑΤΗΣ        ΑΛΕΞΑ.[....]
10[---]ΟΣ        ΔΙΟΝΥ.[...]
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Apparatus

5: Κ v αρν[εάδου] : Καρν[εαδ SECir, 1961-1962
7: Ἁ̣ν̣δ̣ρ̣- : rasura SECir, 1961-1962
9: κ]̣ατης : ]σάτης SECir, 1961-1962

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[ . . . ]onios (scil. son)] of Poth[on; . . .-]os (scil. son) of Karneades; [ .S]okles (scil. son) of Sosa[ndros; Stra]ton (scil. son) of Andr[- . . ; Kar]neades (scil. son) of Apoll[- . . ; . . .-]krates (scil. son) of Alexan[dros; . . .-]os (scil. son) of Dionys[ios; . . .

Commentary

A list of names and patronymics, probably of ephebes.

In line 7 the father's name was apparently erased.

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 210b p.337
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II.7)

   Fig. 2. View (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.5)