IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.144. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.24 x h: 0.41) from a group inscribed with T.132, T.133, T.134, T.135, T.136, T.137, T.138, T.139, T.140, T.141, T.142, T.143, T.144, T.145, T.727, T.146, T.147, T.148, T.149, T.150, T.151, T.152, T.153, T.154, T.155, T.156, T.157, T.158, T.159, T.160, T.161, T.162. Along third inscribed course, to the right of T.143.
Text: Incised on the face
Letters: 0.06.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira:East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Σώσ-
τρα-
τος ἔ-
[θ]ο̣ ((ΦΙΛ))(φίλ)(ος)
5Φερε-
τίμῳ

Diplomatic

ΣΩΣ
ΤΡΑ
ΤΟΣΕ
[.]. ΦΙΛ
5ΦΕΡΕ
ΤΙΜΩ

Apparatus

3/4: ἔ/θος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 The letters seem to have been obscured by a subsequent hand, which transformed the O in line 3 into φ, and cut Λ over O in line 4 to give the monogram which represents φίλος, not reported by Oliverio.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Sostrato, per costume di (appartenente a ?) Feretimo

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Sostratos, customary companion/friend to Pheretimos.

Commentary

Lines 3/4: For the underlying text, ἔθος, see commentary on T.27; for the monogram for φίλος see on P.26.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 163 (VII, 23), pl.LXIII, fig.II, whence SEG 9.435, PHI 324282.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Upper row: Right edge of T.143, T.144, T.145 (block 1); lower row T.148, T.149, T.150, upper part of T.151 (Reynolds NS.II.11)

   Fig. 2. Upper row, lower lines of T.144, T.145 (block 1); lower row T.148, T.149, T.150, upper part of T.151 (Reynolds NS.II.12)

   Fig. 3. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)

   Fig. 4. View of group (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 5. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)