IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.214. Ephebic names

Description: Isolated sandstone block (w: 0.75 x h: 0.63) in the City Wall, in a group comprising T.212, T.213, T.214, T.215.
Text: Incised on the face; ii is cut partly over iii.
Letters: i, ii: 0.07; iii in smaller letters.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: East Wall: in situ, between the fifth group and the south east corner tower.
Original location: Findspot. Not visible in 1969.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Αἰαλ̣[.]άν Εὐ-
[κ]λ̣ίδα [---]
ii
Δάχι-[ς]
Νικάσιος
Λ̣υσαν̣ίας
iii
Ἀ̣τθυ[μάλλας]

Diplomatic

i
ΑΙΑ.[·]ΑΝΕΥ
[.].ΙΔΑ[---]
ii
ΔΑΧΙ[.]
ΝΙΚΑΣΙΟΣ
.ΥΣΑ.ΙΑΣ
iii
.ΤΘΥ[......]

Apparatus

i.1: [Φ]αιαλὰν Εὐ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iii: τõ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Fealàn di Euclide Dachis Nicesio di Lisania

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Aialan (scil. son) of Euklidas. (ii) Dachis (scil. son) of Nikasis. Lysanias. (iii) Atthumallas

Commentary

iii: It is possible that this name, written in smaller characters, is not overwritten, but is the patronymic of Lysanias.

Bibliography: i and ii: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 244 (VII,120), pl. LXVII, fig.17, whence SEG 9.504
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.212 (upper left), T.213 (upper right) and T.214, below (Department of Antiquities, F. 1069)

   Fig. 2. Close-up (Department of Antiquities, F. 1069)

   Fig. 3. T.212, upper left, T.213, upper right, T.215, lower left, and T.214 lower right (Reynolds NS.I.7)