IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.156. Ephebic names

Description: Two adjacent sandstone blocks (a: w: 0.70 x h: 0.65; b: w: 0.68 x h: 0.58) 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 fourth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face; on block a, i above iii, above iv, above vi, above vii above viii (which runs onto b), ii to the right of i, v to the right of iv; ix-x on block b.
Letters: i-vii, c. 0.05; viii-x, 0.10; square sigmas in vi, vii, ix.

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

i
Ἐπικρα̣[---]
ii
[Ε]ὔ̣μ̣αχο̣[ς]
iii
Ἀρα̣ταχάν (sic)
iv
Φίλ[---]
v
Ἀ[ρι]σ̣τόμαχος
vi
Φιλόστρατοϲ
vii
Ξενάρη̣ϲ
viii
Χαρίδαμο | ς
(φίλος) Α̣ἰαλάντι
ix
Νικίαϲ
x
Διονύσιος

Diplomatic

i
ΕΠΙΚΡ.[---]
ii
[.]..ΑΧ.[.]
iii
ΑΡ.ΤΑΧΑΝ(sic)
iv
ΦΙΛ[---]
v
Α[..].ΤΟΜΑΧΟΣ
vi
ΦΙΛΟΣΤΡΑΤΟϹ
vii
ΞΕΝΑΡ.Ϲ
viii
ΧΑΡΙΔΑΜΟ | Σ
ΦΙΛ .ΙΑΛΑΝΤΙ
ix
ΝΙΚΙΑϹ
x
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ

Apparatus

i: Ἐπις- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Unfinished and last letters cut over first of ii
ii: Omitted by Oliverio
iii: Ἀρα- Ἀ ? ν- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iv-v: Φιλ/{λ}οσ[τ]ράτω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
v: Ξενα - - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
vii: Χαριδάμω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
viii.2: Φαιαλάντι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

178: Epis- An- di Euaristo. Ara- di Filostrato. Xena- di Charidemo a? Fealàn. 179: Nikias Dionisio

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Epikra[- (i) Eumachos. (ii) Artachan (iii) Phil[- (iv) Aristomachos (vi) Philostratos (vii) Xenares (viii) Charodamos friend of Aialan. (ix) Nikias (x) Dionysios

Commentary

iv: probably a first attempt at vi.

Oliverio identified viii, line 2, with a text recorded by Pacho, T.728.i.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 178-179 (VII,43,44) pl.LXIV, fig.12, whence SEG 9.449, PHI 324296, SEG 9.450, PHI 324297
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 3-5; middle row T.153, blocks 1 and 2, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (Reynolds NS.II.15)

   Fig. 2. First block (Reynolds NS.II.16)

   Fig. 3. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 2-5; middle row T.153, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (Reynolds NS.II.21)

   Fig. 4. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)

   Fig. 5. View of group (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 6. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)