Description: Sandstone block
(w:
0.88 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.50), from a group inscribed with
T.28, T.29, T.30,
T.31, T.32, T.34,
T.33.
Text: Graffiti: a, to left, in at least two hands; b, within a wreath, to the right,
was apparently never completed.
There are also some Arabic graffiti
Letters: a, i, 0.135; ii, 0.045-0.05; square sigma. b, 0.04; three sided square for digamma; L for ἔτους
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), loose on the street wall; found in 1962.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a.i) Platon. (a.ii) Phlabios (i.e. Flavius) [ . . . ] Poplios (i.e. Publius)
(b) Year 6: M(arkos) (i.e. M(arcus)) Iou[-
Commentary
b, line 2: Μ is rather smaller than the letters that follow, suggesting that the cutter has left space for a superscript bar above it and therefore that it stands for M(ᾶρκος). After ΙΟΥ, and apart from Π in line 3, the condition of the stone suggests that nothing was ever inscribed until modern times - in fact that this is an abandoned text.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
