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T.102. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block from the City Wall.
Text: Incised on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.04; line 2, 0.05; lines 3, 4, 0.45.

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

[---] Διοκλα̣[---]
[---]ος φίλ[οι?---]
[---]ΕΤΡΑ[---]
[---]ς̣ ἔθο[ς ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΔΙΟΚΛ.[---]
[---]ΟΣΦΙΛ[..---]
[---]ΕΤΡΑ[---]
[---].ΕΘΟ[.---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Diokla[- . . . -]os ?friend/friends . . . ] customary companion [- . . .

Commentary

Line 2: Probably friend or friends: see on P.9.

Line 4: For ἔθος see on T.27.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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