Description: Series of four sandstone blocks (b: w:
1.31 x h:
0.33;
c: w:
0.30 x h:
0.50) 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.
Text: Incised on the face, in different hands on the four blocks;
text i is inscribed within a wreath.
Letters: i, 0.03; ii, 0.18; iii-iv, 0.05; v, 0.06; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega in i, iii; L for ἔτους in i, iii-iv;
square digamma in iii.
Date: iv: 18/19 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.
Apparatus
ii: Read by Oliverio, no longer visible to Reynolds.iii: (Ἔτους) καʹ. Νι/καις [Νι]|κιαν[οῦ] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iii: Anno 21. Niceo di Niciano, di anni 49.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Year 3. Aristeas (scil. son) of Poseidonios. (ii) (Not usefully translatable). (iii) Year 26. Nikaios (scil. son) of Nikias. (iv) Year 49. (v) Archidamos [ . . . ] Theodotos, friend of Pa[-
Commentary
iii: Year 26: This should be an Actian year; but we need to clarify precisely how the reign of Tiberius is calculated.
Bibliography: ii: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 240 (VII,116); iii, iv: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 241 (VII,117), whence SEG 9.501, PHI 324348.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text iii (Reynolds XII.98.1)