IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.146. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.89 x h: 0.28) 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 fourth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face, partly obscured by an abutting wall.
Letters: i, 0.055; ii, iii, iv, 0.035-0.05; v, 0.06-0.07; square sigma in iv, cursive omega in iv and v.

Date: First-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
[Τ]ε̣λ̣[χι?]ν̣α̣ῖος
ii
Δ̣α̣[---]
iii
Δ̣[ω]σιθέωι
iv
[.. Μ]ε̣ν̣νέαϲ Θεοτί-
μω
v
Ἀγά-
θων

Diplomatic

i
[.]..[..]..ΙΟΣ
ii
..[---]
iii
.[.]ΣΙΘΕΩΙ
iv
[··.]..ΝΕΑϹΘΕΟΤΙ
ΜΩ
v
ΑΓΑ
ΘΩΝ

Apparatus

iii.1: Δο]σίθεο[ς] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iv.1: Αἰνέας Θεοξή/νω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
v: Omitted by Oliverio

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Telchineo di Da- Enea Dositeo di Teoxeno

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

iii: dem Dositheos

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(iii) Tel[chi]naios? (ii) (Not usefully translatable). (iii) Dositheos. (iv) [M]enneas (scil. son) of Theotimos. (v) Agathon.

Commentary

iii. The name is regarded by Applebaum as indicating a Jew; see Lüderitz, op.cit.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 168 (VII, 32), p. 173, whence SEG 9.440, PHI 324287, Applebaum, 1954 29 46-47, cited SEG 17.822, , Applebaum, 1958 74, , Applebaum, 1979 141. iii: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 41.a, whence SEG 33.1472, PHI 324646
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.146 left, T.147 right (Reynolds NS.II.6)

   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)