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T.84. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) from the City Wall
Text: Incised on the face.
Letters: 0.10-0.05.

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), loose in front of the stretch of the east wall which seems to have formed a boundary to the Gymnasium court and presumably fallen from it; first recorded in 1936
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]τος
Π[τολε]μαί-
ου [Θ?]εοπ-
[---] Ἀκεσίν[ου]

Diplomatic

[---]ΤΟΣ
Π[....]ΜΑΙ
ΟΥ[.]ΕΟΠ
[---]ΑΚΕΣΙΝ[..]

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

-to di Tolemeo Teo- di Acesinou

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . -]tos (scil. son) of Ptolemaios. Theop[- (scil. son) of Akesinos

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 245 (VII,121), whence SEG 9.505.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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