Description: Sandstone blocks
(w:
lengths varying x h:
0.36 x d:
0.50), on which
formal inscriptions have been cut at irregular intervals along both courses, most of them within wreaths of varying patterns.
The legible texts are
T.75, T.76, T.77,
T.78, T.79, T.80,
T.81, T.82. The equally numerous illegible ones
appear to have been deliberately erased presumably to make space.
Text: Incised on a block in the lower course, at the right end of the block
i to the left, ii to the right; each text within a wreath. There is an extensive space to the left.
Letters: 0.02; L for ἔτους
Date: First century BCE-second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), north wall, outer face,
two lower courses above the podium; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot 2008
Apparatus
i.1: Pacho omits this linei.3: Θ Pacho, 1827
i.4: ΡΑΛΟ Pacho, 1827
ii: Not recorded by Pacho
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Year 10. ? (scil. son) of Philokalos.
(i) Not usefully translatable
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXX, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5356e.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXX)Fig. 2. From left T.76.ii, T.77 (Reynolds NS.II.29)
Fig. 3. Face of the block, part of text i at right (Reynolds NS.II.35)
Fig. 4. Texts i and ii (Reynolds NS.II.30)
Fig. 5. Texts i and ii (Reynolds, SB.V.276)
Fig. 6. Complete block, with texts i and ii (Reynolds, SB.V.279)
Fig. 7. Texts i and ii (2008, H.Walda)