IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.78. 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 within a wreath across the join between two blocks on the lower course.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; lunate epsilon and sigma; 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.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θι´
Λούκι-
οϲ Λυ-
ϲαν̣[ί-]
5ο[υ]

Diplomatic

L ΘΙ
ΛΟΥΚΙ
ΟϹΛΥ
ϹΑ.[.-]
5Ο[.]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 19. Loukios (i.e. Lucius) (scil. son) of Lysanias.

Commentary

For commentary see on T.75.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, SB.V.275)