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T.218. Fragment

Description: Sandstone block (h: 0.47 x d: 0.35).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.16.

Date: First century BCE - third century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: South area of the city, in a garden near the former Fortino Perrone; recorded in 1936.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

[---]ΙΣΠΑΝΕ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΙΣΠΑΝΕ[---]

Apparatus

1: το]ῖς πανε[ . . . Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

The size of the letters could suggest a formal, even a public, inscription and if that is right the text might have read e.g. το]ῖς πανε[υδαίμοσι . . . ; but size of letters does not preclude a private text so it may have contained a name, e.g. Ἄριστ]ις Πανέ[ρωτος.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 467, p. 237.
Text constituted from: Previous publication (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).