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T.165. Ephebic names

Description: Three adjacent sandstone blocks: a: w: 0.74 x h: 0.57; b: w: 0.57 x h: 0.57; c: w: 0.84 x h: 0.57. In the City Wall, in a group which comprises T.163, T.164, T.165, T.166, T.168, T.169, T.170, T.171, T.172, T.173, T.174, T.175. In the second inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face: i: extending over all three blocks; ii: on block b.
Letters: i, 0.15; ii, 0.10. The letters are unusually well-formed. There is a superscript bar above the initial Ε of i.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the third group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Εὐκλείδας
ii
Νικίας

Diplomatic

i
ΕΥΚΛΕΙΔΑΣ
ii
ΝΙΚΙΑΣ

Apparatus

i: ΕΥΚΛΕΙΔΓΑΣ Pacho, 1827
ii: Νι[καγ]όρας. L . . ας Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Euclide D - - n. Nicagora. Anno -as

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Eukleidas. (ii) Nikias

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: i: Pacho, 1827, LXXXI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5285; i and ii: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 204 (VII, 74-5), pl.LXV, fig.14, whence SEG 9.470, PHI 324317.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXI)