IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.132. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.63 x h: 0.54), from a group inscribed with T.132, T.133, T.134, T.135, T.136, T.137, T.138, T.139, T.140, T.141, T.142, T.143, T.144, T.145, T.727, T.146, T.147, T.148, T.149, T.150, T.151, T.152, T.153, T.154, T.155, T.156, T.157, T.158, T.159, T.160, T.161, T.162. Along uppermost inscribed course of city wall
Text: Incised on the face; i is cut in erasure, atter the upper edge, ii at the lower edge.
Letters:

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: City Wall: in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate- recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Now lying loose in the Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths) courtyard with T.47.

Interpretive

i
Ξενοκ[---]
ii
Ἐλ̣αΐταϲ Θρα̣[---]

Diplomatic

i
ΞΕΝΟΚ[---]
ii
Ε.ΑΙΤΑϹΘΡ.[---]

Apparatus

i: Ξενοκλ[ῆς] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii: Τηλ?]εδαίτας Θρά(ικιος) ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Xenocle, Teledete tracio

English translation

Translation by: Editors

i. Xenokles. ii. Elaitas (scil. son?) of Thra[- . .

Commentary

ii. There appears to be a vacat to the left of E, indicating a miswriting of Ἐλαιίτας.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 155 (VII, 15), whence SEG 9.427, PHI 324274.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.III.31)

   Fig. 2. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)

   Fig. 3. View of group (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 4. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)