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T.189. Ephebic name

Description: Four adjacent sandstone blocks in the City Wall: i: w: 0.37 x h: 0.55, ii: w: 0.72 x h: 0.53, iii: w: 0.20 x h: 0.51, iv: w: 0.60 x h: 0.50; 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.
Text: Incised on the face; one text on each of the four blocks.
Letters: i, iv, 0.30; ii, iii, 0.06.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

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

Interpretive

i
[---]Λ[---]
ii
Λ(ούκιος) Ὀκν̣ι[ος ---]
iii
[---]Γ[---]
iv
[---]Δ[---]

Diplomatic

i
[---]Λ[---]
ii
ΛΟΚ.Ι[..---]
iii
[---]Γ[---]
iv
[---]Δ[---]

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

200: L.Ocnio ?

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i, iii and iv) (Not usefully translatable). (ii) L(oukios) (i.e. L(ucius)) Okni[os . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: i: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 199 (VII, 68); ii: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 200 (VII, 68b), whence SEG 9.468, PHI 324315; iii, iv: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 201 (VII, 69, 69b)
Text constituted from: ii: Transcription (Reynolds); i, iii, iv, from publications (Roueché)

Images

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