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T.711. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block.
Text: Incised on three faces.
Letters: Face 1.i: c. 0.03, very irregular sizes; ii: line 1, 0.06; line 2, 0.05; Face 2: 0.04-0.05; Face 3: 0.04.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: no precise findspot recorded.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Tocra Museum.

Interpretive

Face 1
i
------
[---ο]δώρω
[---]Ι̣ Β̣ουλια
ii
[---] Πεῖσις
ἔθος
------
Face 2
[---]ΤΙ Πρω-
τάρχω
------
Face 3
[---]ΝΤΙ[---]
[---]ΔΑΜ[---]

Diplomatic

Face 1
i
------
[---.]ΔΩΡΩ
[---]..ΟΥΛΙΑ
ii
[---]ΠΕΙΣΙΣ
ΕΘΟΣ
------
Face 2
[---]ΤΙΠΡΩ
ΤΑΡΧΩ
------
Face 3
[---]ΝΤΙ[---]
[---]ΔΑΜ[---]

Apparatus

1.ii: The text may have continued on a stone below

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(1.i) . . . of -]doros [ . . . ] of Boulias

(1.ii) Peisis, customary companion [?of . . .

(2) . . . ] of Protarchos

(3) (Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

i.ii: for the use of ἕθος see on T.27.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face 1 (Reynolds Tocra III.1.9, NS.IV.9)

   Fig. 2. Face 2 (Reynolds Tocra III.1.7, NS.IV.7)

   Fig. 3. Face 3 (Reynolds Tocra III.1.8, NS.IV.8)