Road signpost ?
created: Transcription from editor.
source date: Perhaps second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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ἱππικός.

ἱππικός

Route autorisée, pour chevaux.

Road allowed for horses.

Strada per cavalli.

(ربما تعني ضمنياً: شوارع مسموح بها (؟)) للخيول

The photograph shows clearly that the inscription runs on two lines, pace Oliverio.

Oliverio gives dimensions for the letters, that seem incredible unless the wall («antichissimo») was made of really huge blocks.

Another similar mention has been registered on the road from Cyrene to Balagrae, see IGCyr107350. Since the publication of the other inscription, it has been admitted that the word δρόμος should be supplied, indicating a road allowed for horses and carriages, not a racecourse as Oliverio thought. Criscuolo now prefers a subaudible τόπος, i.e. a place where horses might stay (and Chandezon, per litteras, even suggested a grazing place). However those interesting ideas would not fit the place well.

Additional note 2023: After the first edition of this corpus, where we proposed only the road interpretation, we discovered an occurrence of Ἱππικός as a personal name at Taucheira: new reading of IRCyr2020 T.680, probably in the first century CE. It is thus not impossible that we have also a man's name here and at IGCyr107350.