IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.31. Ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.96 x h: 0.355 x d: 0.50), from a group inscribed with T.28, T.29, T.30, T.31, T.32, T.34, T.33.
Text: Two texts each incised within a wreath; i to the left, ii to the right. In ii, the date has been cut above the wreath.
Letters: i: 0.04; L for ἔτους; everything below line 1 has been deliberately though incompletely erased. ii: 0.04; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; L for ἔτους

Date: First to second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), loose on the street wall; found in 1962.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) ια´
[------]
ii
(ἔτους) ε´
Π(όπλιοϲ)((stop)) Ταμ̣-
έ[α?]ϲ̣ Ϲερα-
π[ί]ω̣ Kανω-
5που

Diplomatic

i
L ΙΑ
[------]
ii
L Ε
Π ΤΑ.
Ε[.].ϹΕΡΑ
Π[.].KΑΝΩ
5ΠΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

i:Year 11 [ . . .

ii: Year 5, P(oplios) (i.e. P(ublius)) ?Tameas Serapio, (scil. son) of Kanopos

Commentary

ii, line 1, cut above the wreath.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of wall: above, from left, T.30, T.29, T.31; below, T.27 I and II (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds Tocra II.4.16a, NS.III.16)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra II.2.11A, NS.III.11)