Name of an ephebe
IGCyr117900
Trismegistos ID: 738727
Source Description
Support
Sandstone block reused in the city wall (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.05-0.06; seemingly pre-Augustan script.
Place of Origin
Date
First half of first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1962 by R.G. Goodchild in Taucheira pleiades; HGL (the city being re-named Arsinoe at the time of the inscription): re-used in the wall of the late guardroom on the extramural side of the South tower of the East gate .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1995 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team; edited from J.M. Reynolds' observations.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (J.M. Reynolds).
Bibliography
Not previously published
Apparatus
French translation
An 4. Zèn [---] fils d'Haniokhos.
English translation
Year 4. Zen [---] son of Haniochos.
Italian translation
Anno 4. Zen [---] figlio di Haniochos.
Arabic translation
السنة 4. زين [---] بن هانيوخوس.
Commentary
J.M. Reynolds observed that the stonecutter perhaps did not finish the name beginning with Ζην- because avoiding an isolated delta already cut there.
Most names dated with a year are considered of Roman time. However J.M. Reynolds thought that the lettering of this one was older. If so, we do not know to which event the era was related.
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