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T.44. Ephebic name

Description: Broken sandstone block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.50), from a group inscribed with T.37, T.38, T.39, T.40, T.41, T.42, T.43, T.44, T.45, T.46, T.47.
Text: Three texts each incised within a wreath; i to the left, ii in the cente, iii to the right.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; lunate epsilon and sigma, L for ἔτους.

Date: First to second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths); found in 1962.
Original location: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths).
Last recorded location: Findspot, lying loose.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ´
Ἐπάγα-
θοϲ Ἡρ[α-]
κλείδο̣[υ]
5 τρὶϲ ἔ-
φηβοϲ

Diplomatic

L Θ
ΕΠΑΓΑ
ΘΟϹΗΡ[.-]
ΚΛΕΙΔ.[.]
5ΤΡΙϹΕ
ΦΗΒΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 9: Epagathos (scil. son) of Herakleidas, three times an ephebe.

Commentary

Another description of someone three times an ephebe is apparently recorded at T.724; for "twice an ephebe" see P.402 and T.74 perhaps T.45.i. The impression given here is that Epagathos was exceptional.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1996, Tocra 1, p. 38, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, SEG 46.2221
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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