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T.83. Ephebic names

Description: Two sandstone blocks (i. w: 0.78 x h: 0.295 x d: 0.57; ii, not measured).
Text: i incised on one block, a above b, c to the right of a. ii on a second block. Each entry in a different hand.
Letters: i: a, 0.06-7; b, 0.08; c to the right of a. 0.03-4. ii: no measurement.

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Taucheira: re-used in a wall in the garden of the modern house behind the Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths); first recorded in 1968
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
a
[---] ἔθι Φλαβίῳ
b
[---]ΟΣ Λούκιος
c
[---]ος
ii
[---]ς̣ Ξενώ̣[---]

Diplomatic

i
a
[---]ΕΘΙΦΛΑΒΙΩ
b
[---]ΟΣΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
c
[---]ΟΣ
ii
[---].ΞΕΝ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i.α) . . . ] customary companion to Phlabios (i.e. Flavius)

(i.b) . . . ] Loukios (i.e. Lucius)

(i.c) (Not usefully translatable)

(ii.) . . . ] Xenon [ . . .

Commentary

1.a: A name in the nominative case will have preceded; for the ephebic formula with ἔθος, ἔθη, ἔθει see discussion on T.27.

:ii: Perhaps . . . ἔθο]ς̣ Ξένω̣[νι . . ., customary companion to Xenon.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

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