IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.703. ?Ephebic name or ?funerary inscription

Description: Perhaps a limestone block.
Text: Inscribed ?on a flat face.
Letters: Standard forms.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: One of the East Quarries; recorded by Pacho in 1825; not seen subsequently.
Original location: Probably in one of the East Quarries, but possibly in the City Walls.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

Σώστρατος
Ἀλέξιδ̣ος

Diplomatic

ΣΩΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ
ΑΛΕΞΙ.ΟΣ

Apparatus

2: ΑΛΕΞΙΡΙΟΣ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Sostratos (scil. son) of Alexis

Commentary

Franz (in CIG) suggested that this might also be two names in the nominative.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5345.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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