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T.19. Ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.76 x h: 0.32, depth not measurable) inscribed with T.19 and T.20
Text: Incised to the left of T.20, within an ornate wreath, diameter 0.18; there is an ivy leaf, point upwards, above the wreath.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; lunate epsilon and sigma.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Byzantine 'fortress', reused in the East wall, facing the street; found in 1966.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιη´
Λούκιϲ
Ἀνθέστιϲ
Ἀπολλήν-
5 ( vac. 1)ιϲ ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

L ΙΗ
ΛΟΥΚΙϹ
ΑΝΘΕΣΤΙϹ
ΑΠΟΛΛΗΝ
5  ΙϹ  

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 18: Louki(o)s Anthesti(o)s Apolloni(o)s.

Commentary

For the significance of the wreath see on P.167, T.27.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.19 to the left, T.20 to the right (Reynolds, SB.V.294)