IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.105. Fragmentary ?ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block.
Text: Incised on the face, ii below, and to the left of i; there are no traces of any other letters.
Letters: i. Hellenistic, 0.10; ii, c. 0.07

Date: Second-first century BCE

Findspot: Taucheira: reused in the walls of the East Gate, North tower, in situ in the external face of the extra-mural wall; found in 1962
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Φι(- - -)
ii
Σω(- - -)

Diplomatic

i
ΦΙ
ii
ΣΩ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

ii, perhaps a mason's mark; the letter forms are surely pre-Roman

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.III.27)