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T.186. Ephebic names

Description: Three adjacent sandstone blocks (a: w: 0.76 x h: 0.55; b: w: 0.76 x h: 0.58; c: w: 0.72 x h: 0.60) in the City Wall, in a group which comprises T.176, T.177, T.178, T.179, T.180, T.181, T.182, T.183, T.184, T.185, T.186, T.187, T.189, T.191. In the fifth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face. ii on block a, i, iii on block a, completed on block b; iv-vi on block b; vii-viii on block b, completed on block c.
Letters: 0.05; lunate sigma in v.

Date: vii: 9/10 CE

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

Interpretive

i
[Αἴγ]υπτος
ii
Διόδωρος
Τιμαγόρα
iii
Ζήνων Ω[---]
iv
[---]ρος (φίλος) Ἀφθάνι
v
Μ̣ε̣λ̣λίταν̣
vi
(ἔτους) μ´ Δάχις
vii
[Θ]α̣λ̣[ῖ]νος
viii
Ἐ̣αρῖν[ος?]

Diplomatic

i
[...]ΥΠΤΟΣ
ii
ΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΣ
ΤΙΜΑΓΟΡΑ
iii
ΖΗΝΩΝΩ[---]
iv
[---]ΡΟΣ ΦΙΛ ΑΦΘΑΝΙ
v
...ΛΙΤΑ.
vi
L ΜΔΑΧΙΣ
vii
[.]..[.]ΝΟΣ
viii
.ΑΡΙΝ[..]

Apparatus

i: Ὕπ(ι)ος ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
v: Θαλιτὰ[[ν]] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
viii: Βαρ - - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Zenone di Oro ad Aftàn? Ipio di Talite di Bar-. Diodoro di Timagora. Anno 40 Dachis in ? Talino.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Aigyptos. (ii) Diodoros (scil. son) of Timagoras. (iii) Zenon O. (iv) -ros friend of Aphthan. (v) Mellitan. (vi) Year 40, Dachis. (vii) Thalinos. (viii) Earinos.

Commentary

iv: For the monogram see P.26

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 197 (VII, 64-66), whence SEG 9.466, PHI 324313.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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