IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.137. Ephebic names

Description: Two sandstone half blocks, one above the other, the upper one (w: 0.61 x h: 0.44) projecting, but the inscriptions possibly connected; 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.
Text: Incised i on the upper block at the lower edge, ii on the lower block.
Letters: 0.10; probably square sigma

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: East Wall, in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Νικίαϲ̣
i
Λ[---]
Νικίαϲ̣

Diplomatic

i
ΝΙΚΙΑ.
i
Λ[---]
ΝΙΚΙΑ.

Apparatus

ii: Not reported by Oliverio.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Nicia

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Nikias. Nikias

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Upper block only: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 182 (VII, 48), pl.LXIII, fig.11, whence SEG 9.453, PHI 324300.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.133 above, T.136 and T.137 centre (Reynolds NS.II.5)

   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)


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