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T.100. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block from the City Wall.
Text: Incised on the face.
Letters: 0.05-0.06.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), loose in front of the stretch of the east wall which seems to have formed a boundary to the Gymnasium court and presumably fallen from it; first recorded in 1936
Original location: Presumably the east wall of the Gymnasium Court.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Ἡρόδοτος
(φίλ)(ος) [.]ω̣μ̣ία
ii
Δάχις
Ἀριστωνύ-
( vac. )μωι
iii
Θεόδοτος
Δ̣ωσιθέωι

Diplomatic

i
ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ
ΦΙΛ [·]..ΙΑ
ii
ΔΑΧΙΣ
ΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΥ
      ΜΩΙ
iii
ΘΕΟΔΟΤΟΣ
.ΩΣΙΘΕΩΙ

Apparatus

ii.3: The spacing of the letters conforms to the monogram in section i

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i) Herodotos friend of [ . . -]omias

(ii) Dachis (scil. friend/son) of Aristonymos

(iii) Theodotos (scil. friend/son) of Dositheos

Commentary

For this monogram see on P.26.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).