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T.74. Ephebic names

Description: ?Sandstone block
Text: Twο texts; ii, on the right, incised within a wreath.
Letters: No measurements, but the letters in i are larger than ii; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century BCE-second 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
[ἔφη]βοϲ
ii
(ἔτουϲ) κβ´
[...]ιω̣-
ν Ἀπ̣ο[λ-]
λοδ̣ώρ-
5ου δ[ί]ς ἔ̣φ̣-
[η]βοϲ

Diplomatic

i
[...]ΒΟϹ
ii
L ΚΒ
[···]Ι.
ΝΑ.Ο[.-]
ΛΟ.ΩΡ
5ΟΥΔ[.]Σ..
[.]ΒΟϹ

ii.1: LΚΚ Pacho, 1827
ii.2: ΙΟ Pacho, 1827
ii.3: NΛΥΤΑ Pacho, 1827; Σω]ναύτα ? CIG, Vol.III
ii.4: ΛΟΛωΡ Pacho, 1827; [Δι]ο[δ]ώρου ? CIG, Vol.III
ii.5: ΟΥΔΟϹΕΟ Pacho, 1827
ii.6: ΒΟϹ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i). Ephebe

(ii). Year 22. [ ? ] (scil. son) of Apollodoros, twice an ephebe.

Commentary

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

For "twice an ephebe" see also P.402 and perhaps T.45.i; for three times an ephebe see T.44 and perhaps T.724.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXX, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5356c.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

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