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T.109. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.39).
Text: Incised on the face.
Letters: 0.08.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: East Gate, fallen from the extra-mural wall of the South Tower; found in 1962.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]κρ ( vac. 1)ιτος
[Φί]λιππος Ἰχισ[---]
Τ̣Θ̣[c. 5]ΚΥ
ΤΩ[.]Ι̣Ι̣[...]

Diplomatic

[---]ΚΡ  ΙΤΟΣ
[..]ΛΙΠΠΟΣΙΧΙΣ[---]
..[·····]ΚΥ
ΤΩ[·]..[···]

Apparatus

1: The space is due to the cutter avoiding a hole in the stone

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . -]kritos. Philippos (scil. ?son/?friend) of Ichis[- . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra II.5.26A, NS.III.26)