IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.709. Fragmentary ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.41 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.13).
Text: Incised on two separate occasions, i perhaps in two hands, ii fitted in around i.
Letters: i. 0.07 - 0.08 ii. 0.04, cursive omega, cursive mu.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: no precise findspot recorded.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Tocra Museum.

Interpretive

i
[---]ΑΝ
[---]ΑΝΤ
ii
Ἰτθαλ-
( vac. 1)λάμ-
μω̣ν̣

Diplomatic

i
[---]ΑΝ
[---]ΑΝΤ
ii
ΙΤΘΑΛ
  ΛΑΜ
Μ..

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): not usefully translatable

(ii): Itthalammon

Commentary

For this name as Libyan rather than semitic, as has been suggested, see Masson (1976) 61

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face b (Reynolds NS.XI.11)