IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.158. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block 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 fifth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face; i, above ii above iv, iii to the right of ii; iii and iv possibly completed on the next stone whose surface is quite lost.
Letters: i, iv, 0.09; i, iii, 0.06; lunate sigma in iv, cursive omega in iii.

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
(ἔτους) ι̣β̣´ Πραξιτέλης
ii
Δι̣φ̣α̣ν̣[..]
iii
ΝΧ̣ΩΡΑ |
iv
Πα̣υσανίαϲ Ἀρ- | [---]

Diplomatic

i
L ..ΠΡΑΞΙΤΕΛΗΣ
ii
Δ....[··]
iii
Ν.ΩΡΑ |
iv
Π.ΥΣΑΝΙΑϹΑΡ | [---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Year 12 Praxiteles. (ii) Diphan[- . (iii) (not usefully translatable). (iv) Pausanias Ar[- .

Commentary

i. .

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Centre, T.158; above, T.147, and T.148; below, T.161 (Reynolds NS.II.13)

   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)