Description: Two adjacent sandstone blocks (a: w:
0.70 x h:
0.65; b: w:
0.68 x h:
0.58) from a group
inscribed with T.132, T.133,
T.134, T.135, T.136, T.137,
T.138, T.139, T.140, T.141, T.142,
T.143, T.144, T.145, T.727, T.146,
T.147, T.148, T.149, T.150,
T.151, T.152, T.153, T.154,
T.155, T.156, T.157, T.158,
T.159, T.160, T.161, T.162.
Along fourth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face; on block a, i above iii, above iv, above vi, above vii above viii (which runs onto b),
ii to the right of i, v to the right of iv; ix-x on block b.
Letters: i-vii, c. 0.05; viii-x, 0.10; square sigmas in vi, vii, ix.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i: Ἐπις- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Unfinished and last letters cut over first of iiii: Omitted by Oliverio
iii: Ἀρα- Ἀ ? ν- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iv-v: Φιλ/{λ}οσ[τ]ράτω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
v: Ξενα - - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
vii: Χαριδάμω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
viii.2: Φαιαλάντι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
178: Epis- An- di Euaristo. Ara- di Filostrato. Xena- di Charidemo a? Fealàn. 179: Nikias Dionisio
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Epikra[- (i) Eumachos. (ii) Artachan (iii) Phil[- (iv) Aristomachos (vi) Philostratos (vii) Xenares (viii) Charodamos friend of Aialan. (ix) Nikias (x) Dionysios
Commentary
iv: probably a first attempt at vi.
Oliverio identified viii, line 2, with a text recorded by Pacho, T.728.i.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 178-179 (VII,43,44) pl.LXIV, fig.12, whence SEG 9.449, PHI 324296, SEG 9.450, PHI 324297
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 3-5; middle row T.153, blocks 1 and 2, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (Reynolds NS.II.15)
Fig. 2. First block (Reynolds NS.II.16)
Fig. 3. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 2-5; middle row T.153, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (Reynolds NS.II.21)
Fig. 4. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)
Fig. 5. View of group (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)