Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.29 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.50).
Text: Incised with three texts within wreaths
(i. line 1 above the wreath); there is a caduceus between i and ii and a palm branch to the right of iii.
Letters: i: 0.04; lunate epsilon, sigma and cursive omega together with an square sigma in line 3; L for ἔτους; a superscript bar above
the abbreviated praenomen; ii: 0.04, lunate sigma; L for ἔτους much fainter than those of i. or ii. iii: 0.04; square sigma;
L for ἔτους.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Turkish castle, 'sulla gradinata della piazzetta'; found in 1936.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
Apparatus
i.1: L ιβ΄ γ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936i.2/3: Ἐπί(διος) ?Πί/ος Ζω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
i.4: τικῶ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
i.5: Omitted by Oliverio
ii.1: Σέσ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii.2: τ(ιος) Γά Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii.4: α΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 12, 3a (volta?), Ep(idio) ?Pio di Zotico. - Sestio Gaio, Ia (volta) - Anno 22. Marco Montano Crispo.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Year 12, G(aios) Eppios (i.e. G(aius) Eppius) Zotikos
(ii) Year 5, Gaios (i.e. Gaius) . .
(iii) Year 22, Markos Montanos Krispos (i.e. Marcus Montanus Crispus)
Commentary
ii.2. ΤΚ: possibly for Τι(βέριος) K(λαύδιος) Γάϊος, (i.e. T(iberius) C(laudius) Gaius)
ii.4: The alpha is apparently a numeral - perhaps indicating a victory? Or a status, 'first'?
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 473 (343), pl. LXXXV, fig.55, whence SEG 9.552
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
