Description: Sandstone block (w:
0.73 x h:
0.46).
Text: Onone face. The names in 2 (i-v) appear to have been incised before text 1 was
inscribed; the letters in 2 are, in some cases, destroyed by the tranches of the monumental letters.
Letters: 1: monumental lettering, ?Augustan, 0.30; 2: informal, 0.05.
Date: 1.Augustan; 2. First century BCE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
South Wall, re-used in the Third Tower, above T.247, next to T.245
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Demetrio di Menofilo. Eufris. Bithis . .-de di -, -ti di Ni-, Nico
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(1) (Not usefully translatable). (2.i) Demetrios [son of] Menophilos. (ii) Euphris. (iii) Bithys. ( iv, v) (Not usefully translatable).
Commentary
1: From a monumental text of some grandeur. The form of omega suggests an early, even Augustan, date.
2.ii: A name of Thracian origin.
2.v: The first name was probably Latin in origin: Νίγερ, Νιγρῖνος?
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 284 (158), pl LXX, fig.24, whence SEG 9.542
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).