IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.77. Ephebic name

Description: Sandstone blocks (w: lengths varying x h: 0.36 x d: 0.50), on which formal inscriptions have been cut at irregular intervals along both courses, most of them within wreaths of varying patterns. The legible texts are T.75, T.76, T.77, T.78, T.79, T.80, T.81, T.82. The equally numerous illegible ones appear to have been deliberately erased presumably to make space.
Text: Incised on a block in the lower course, at the right end of the block i to the left, ii to the right; each text within a wreath. There is an extensive space to the left.
Letters: 0.02; L for ἔτους

Date: First century BCE-second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), north wall, outer face, two lower courses above the podium; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot 2008

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) ι´
ΠΑ̣[---]
Φιλ̣ο̣-
κάλου
ii
[c. 4]
Ο [c. 4]
( vac. 1)ΝΩ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

i
L Ι
Π.[---]
ΦΙ..
ΚΑΛΟΥ
ii
[····]
Ο[····]
  ΝΩ  

Apparatus

i.1: Pacho omits this line
i.3: Θ Pacho, 1827
i.4: ΡΑΛΟ Pacho, 1827
ii: Not recorded by Pacho

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Year 10. ? (scil. son) of Philokalos.

(i) Not usefully translatable

Commentary

For commentary see on T.75.

l. 1, Year 10; but "ιγ'" = 13 is also possible

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXX, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5356e.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left T.76.ii, T.77 (Reynolds NS.II.29)

   Fig. 3. Face of the block, part of text i at right (Reynolds NS.II.35)

   Fig. 4. Texts i and ii (Reynolds NS.II.30)

   Fig. 5. Texts i and ii (Reynolds, SB.V.276)

   Fig. 6. Complete block, with texts i and ii (Reynolds, SB.V.279)

   Fig. 7. Texts i and ii (2008, H.Walda)