IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.79. 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, within a wreath. There is an extensive space to the left.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; lunate sigma, cursive omega; 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) ιγ´
Ἀμμώ-
ν̣ι̣ϲ Γλύ-
[κ]ω[ν-]
ο̣ϲ̣

Diplomatic

L ΙΓ
ΑΜΜΩ
..ϹΓΛΥ
[.]Ω[.-]
..

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 13. Ammonis (scil. son) of Glykon.

Commentary

For commentary see on T.75.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, SB.V.274)