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T.248. ?Ephebic names

Description: Block (no measurements).
Text: Incised presumably on one face.
Letters: Robinson gives lunate sigma and epsilon, cursive omega.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Turkish castle, south wall of the guardhouse; recorded in 1910.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1910).

Interpretive

ΑϹΤΛΟΝΗϹΙΩ
[c. 6]ΙϹΤΙ
[c. 7]ΕΙ΄Α
[c. 4]ΝΚ[...]ϹΥ

Diplomatic

ΑϹΤΛΟΝΗϹΙΩ
[······]ΙϹΤΙ
[·······]ΕΙ΄Α
[····]ΝΚ[···]ϹΥ

Apparatus

1: Ἀστ[ύ]λον (ν)ησιώ[την] Robinson, 1913

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Probably a re-used block containing ephebic graffiti; no interpretation is possible

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 112, with a drawing.
Text constituted from: Publication

Images

None available (2020).