Ephebic names
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century BCE - third century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

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Σωσίστρατος φίλος

[...]οαξ

[...] Σωτέχνοι

[...]αϲ[...]οϲ

Ἀρίμμα

Apparatus

Translation

[i] Sosistratos friend [of ? . . . . [ii and iv.a] [Not usefully translatable]. [iii] . . . ] for Sotechnos. [iv.b] . . . ] of Arimmas.

Commentary

Certainly graffiti; probably the block originally belonged in the gymnasium and was inscribed by ephebes.

i: The monogram is common in ephebic texts at Ptolemais and Teucheira; see on P.26.

iii: For the name see P.79. The dative case in an ephebic context suggests a preceding name in the nominative; the two may have been linked by ἔθος, ἔθει, ἔθη or by φίλος: see on T.27.