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T.60. Ephebic names

Description: ?Sandstone block
Text: Two texts incised, i) to the left without a panel, ii) to the right within a wreath.
Letters: i: tall, lunate sigma, diamond phi; ii: smaller, lunate sigma

Date: First century BCE-first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), probably North Wall (where similar texts are still in situ: see on T.50); recorded in 1825.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

i
(ἔτουϲ) ιζ´ Γ(άιοϲ) Ὀφίλλ̣ιοϲ Λόπ̣οϲ
ii
(ἔτουϲ) ε´
Χαιρεϲ̣ι-
λαϲ Λά̣ω-
[ν]ο̣[ϲ]

Diplomatic

i
L ΙΖΓΟΦΙΛ.ΙΟϹΛΟ.ΟϹ
ii
L Ε
ΧΑΙΡΕ.Ι
ΛΑϹΛ.Ω
[.].[.]

Apparatus

i: LΙΖΓΟΦΙΛΑΙΟϹΛΟΓΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; L ιζʹ Ὀφίλ[λ]ιος λόγιος CIG, Vol.III
ii.1: Ε Ε Pacho, 1827
ii.2: ΧΟΡΕΟΙ Pacho, 1827
ii.3: ΛΑϹΛΛω Pacho, 1827
ii.4: ω Pacho, 1827
ii.1-4: χορέοι [μεγά]λω [θε]ῶ ? CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i). Year 17. G(aios) Ophellios Lopos (i.e. G(aius) Ofellius Lupus)

(ii). Year 5. Chairesilas (scil. son) of Laon.

Commentary

For this group of texts T.50-T.74, collected by Pacho, see on T.50.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5328.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXI)