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T.233. Fragmentary ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.40 x h: 0.54).
Text: Incised on the face.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: South Wall: Curtain wall between Southeast and the second Tower.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιδ´
[---]ος
[---Μου?]σαι-
[ου]

Diplomatic

L ΙΔ
[---]ΟΣ
[---...]ΣΑΙ
[..]

Apparatus

2-3: [Γάϊ]ος [Νυ]σαῖ[ος]? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 14. Gaio Niseo

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 14. (Remaining traces not translatable).

Commentary

In lines 2-3 the first name is not to be guessed, the second, presumably a patronymic, might as well be e.g. the locally attested Μουσαῖος.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 277 (151), whence SEG 9.536
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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