IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.120. Ephebic names

Description: Two adjacent sandstone blocks (w: 1.00 x h: 0.45 and w: 0.70 x h: 0.65) from a group inscribed with T.116, T.117, T.118, T.119, T.120, T.121, T.122, T.123, T.124, T.125, T.126, T.127, T.128, T.129, T.130, T.131
Text: Incised on the face. Block a (i, ii, iii) completed on block b (iv, v), the text cut over an earlier, illegible one.
Letters: 0.09, 0.03. In iii, line 2, letters are much smaller than line 1 and may not belong

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: East Wall, on the inner face just south of the East Gate; along third inscribed course, below T.117.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
[Φι]λ̣[ό]κωμος
ii
Πασικ̣[λ]ῇς
iii
Μελάντ[ι-]
ος Γ(- - -)-
iv
Ἀνδρό-
τιμο[ς] (ἔτους) δ´
v
Ἀμμώνιος

Diplomatic

i
[..].[.]ΚΩΜΟΣ
ii
ΠΑΣΙ.[.]ΗΣ
iii
ΜΕΛΑΝΤ[.-]
ΟΣΓ
iv
ΑΝΔΡΟ
ΤΙΜΟ[.] L Δ
v
ΑΜΜΩΝΙΟΣ

Apparatus

i: κῶμος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii: πᾶσι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iv.2: δ : ϛ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
v: Ἀμιδόνιοςιγν Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Comos a tutti Melanzio ? Androtimo anno 6 Amidonio.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Philokomos. (ii) Pasikles. (iii) Melantios. (iv) Androtimos, year 4. (v) Ammonios

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 146 (VII, 5, 6), p. 169, whence SEG 9.423, PHI 324270.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Group (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. T.120, with T.117 above, T.123 below (Reynolds, NS.VI.35)

   Fig. 3. Above: T.120, left block (Reynolds, NS.VI.32)

   Fig. 4. Above: T.120, right block, T.121 (left side); Centre: T.123 (Reynolds, NS.VI.33)