IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.53. Ephebic name

Description: ?Sandstone block
Text: Incised within a wreath.
Letters: No description; L for ἔτους; lunate sigma.

Date: First century BCE-first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), probably North Wall (where similar texts are still in situ: see on T.50); recorded in 1825.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

(ἔτουϲ) αι̣´
[Τί]μαιοϲ
Ῥούφο[υ]

Diplomatic

L Α.
[..]ΜΑΙΟϹ
ΡΟΥΦΟ[.]

1: LΑΤ Pacho, 1827; L αʹ Τ- CIG, Vol.III
2: ΜΑΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; -[ί]μαιος CIG, Vol.III JMR also conjectured Μαγ̣ος

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Timaios (scil. son) ?of Rouphos (i.e. Rufus).

Commentary

For this group of texts T.50-T.74, collected by Pacho, see on T.50.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXX, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5348.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXX)