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T.205. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.73 x h: 0.53) in the City Wall, in a group which comprises T.192, T.193, T.194, T.195, T.196, T.197, T.198, T.199, T.200, T.201, T.202, T.203, T.204, T.205, T.206, T.207, T.208, T.209, T.210, T.211. In the third inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face, i within a wreath, ii below the wreath.
Letters: 0.03.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

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

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) η´
Σήτιο-
ϲ Ἰού̣λι-
οϲ
ii
Νικόϲτρ̣[ατοϲ]

Diplomatic

i
L Η
ΣΗΤΙΟ
ϹΙΟ.ΛΙ
ΟϹ
ii
ΝΙΚΟϹΤ.[....]

Apparatus

i.2: Σή(σ)τιο Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii: Not reported by Oliverio

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 9. Sestio Giulio -

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i) Year 8. Setios Ioulios (i.e. Setius Julius). (ii) Nikostratos

Commentary

i, lines 3-4: perhaps for Σήστιος; but Σήτιος is also attested.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 226 (VII,98), whence SEG 9.488, PHI 324335.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.78)