IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.201. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.74 x h: 0.60) in the City Wall, in a group which comprises T.192, T.193, T.194, T.195, T.196, T.197, T.198, T.199, T.200, T.201, T.202, T.203, T.204, T.205, T.206, T.207, T.208, T.209, T.210, T.211. In the third inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face, text i within a wreath, above iii, above iv; ii to the left of i.
Letters: i, 0.04; ii, iii, 0.13; iv, 0.05; lunate sigma in i, cursive omega in i, v; L for ἔτουϲ.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

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

Interpretive

i
(ἔτουϲ) η´
Ἀμμώ-
νιοϲ
Λύκου
ii
(ἔτους) ι´
iii
Ἀρίμμ | [ας]
iv
Μαίων

Diplomatic

i
L Η
ΑΜΜΩ
ΝΙΟϹ
ΛΥΚΟΥ
ii
L Ι
iii
ΑΡΙΜΜ | [..]
iv
ΜΑΙΩΝ

Apparatus

ii: Omitted by Oliverio. A digit may have been destroyed when the wreath was cut.
iv: Μαίων Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

220: Anno 8. Ammonio di Lico. 221: Arimma Meon.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Year 8. Ammonios (scil. son) of Lykos. (ii) Year 10. (iii) Arimmas. (iv) Maion.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 220-221 (VII,94), pl.LXVI, fig.15, whence SEG 9.484, PHI 324331.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.197 above, T.201 below (Department of Antiquities, F. 2860)

   Fig. 2. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 2860)