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T.32. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block, broken to the left (w: 0.54 x h: 0.34 x d: 0.50), from a group inscribed with T.28, T.29, T.30, T.31, T.32, T.34, T.33.
Text: Two texts each incised within a wreath; i to the left, ii to the right, broken away at the right.
Letters: i: 0.04; lunate epsilon, sigma; the greater part erased. ii: 0.04, standard sigma, L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.

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.

Interpretive

i
[(ἔτους) .]
[.]ϹΕΡ̣[---]
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ii
(ἔτους) ι[.]´
Λ(ούκιος) Νο[---]-
-ος Ι̣[---]-
-βι[---]

Diplomatic

i
[.·]
[·]ϹΕ.[---]
------
ii
L Ι[·]
ΛΝΟ[---]
ΟΣ.[---]
ΒΙ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i) Not usefully translatable. (ii) Year 10+: L(oukios) (i.e. L(ucius)) No[- . . .

Commentary

ii. line 2 The nomen was perhaps Νόβιος or Νόνιος, the cognomen Πολύβιος or Καλλίβιος.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.II.37)