Acclamations serving as captions for frescoes
created: a and c from previous publications; b transcribed by Reynolds.
source date: Probably first to second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 62, and fig. 48, and more fully [...], 285-7, and pl. XXVI, 2, whence [...], 1955.277, [...] 16.874, [...] 324359.

καιρόϲ

[...] χηιϲει[...]

τῶι Εὐτύχῳ καὶ Φιλότᾳ καὶ Ῥούφῳ εὐτυχῖτε

Apparatus

[^a1: at b: χήσει [Perhaps [ἀγαθῆι τύ]χηι Σε[ι...]]]

Translation

[a] . . . ] kairos

[b] To/for/by good fortune

[c] For Eutychos and Philotas and Rufus - may you have good luck.

Commentary

The figures, interpreted as huntsmen by Caputo, are more probably gladiators. He argues for a Severan date.

a. Perhaps a name or part of a name, cf. Καλοκαιρός, rather than a divinity as Caputo suggests.