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T.95. Fragmentary ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.64 x h: 0.32).
Text: Incised on the face, within a wreath.
Letters: 0.075

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: Presumably the east wall of the Gymnasium Court.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[--- ἔ]θ̣η Α[---]
Σιφ- ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---.].ΗΑ[---]
ΣΙΦ      

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

-- per costume di (appartenente a) Sif-

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] customary companion of Siph-

Commentary

Line 1: For ἔθη see discussion on T.27.

Line 2: The name was apparently not completed.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 257 (VII,132), whence SEG 9.517
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).