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List of ephebes (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1038002
Trismegistos ID: 738560

Source description

Support: Right side of fragmentary white marble panel broken off at top, left and bottom (w: 0.095 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.01 to 0.013; varying spaces following the number of letters at each line; well marked serifs; rho with small loop, non-slanting sigma.

Date: End of second or beginning of first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 369. Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir, 240 (no image); Dobias-Lalou 2016, p. 254 and fig. 14; IGCyr 103800 .

Text

Interpretive

[------]
[--- π]όλιος
[---] άρχω
[---] άρχω
[---] ιος
5[---] ίλα
[---] σ̣τράτω
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---.]ΟΛΙΟΣ
[---]ΑΡΧΩ
[---]ΑΡΧΩ
[---]ΙΟΣ
5[---]ΙΛΑ
[---].ΤΡΑΤΩ
[------]

French translation

[--- Untel fils de ---]polis, [Untel fils de ---]arkhos, [Untel fils de ---]arkhos, [Untel fils de ---]is, [Untel fils de ---]ilas, [Untel fils de ---]stratos, [---].

English translation

[--- So-and-so son of ---]polis, [So-and-so son of ---]archos, [So-and-so son of ---]archos, [So-and-so son of ---]is, [So-and-so son of ---]ilas, [So-and-so son of ---]stratos, [---].

Italian translation

[--- il tale figlio di ---]polis, [il tale figlio di ---]archos, [il tale figlio di ---]archos, [il tale figlio di ---]is, [il tale figlio di ---]ilas, [il tale figlio di ---]stratos, [---].

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr0946002 for a possible relation between both fragments. The possibility of a list of ephebes has been argued by Dobias-Lalou 2016.

Those genitive endings should belong to fathers' names and have been preceded by the individual names.

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