Ephebic name
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century BCE to first century CE
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σύγκοιτοι Κομανός

σύγκοιτοι

Apparatus

Translations

Comano

[i]: . . . ] bed-fellow/s, Komanos. [ii]: Bed-fellow/s

(i) : . . . ] شريك/ شركاء الفراش ، كومانوس. (ii): شريك/ شركاء الفراش.

Commentary

For this group of texts see commentary on P.1

i: For the name cf. P.13. Oliverio identified this person with the minister of Ptolemy Neoterus (Polyb. XXVIII. 19.2, 20.1) but this seems most improbable - the text is clearly informal and the letter-forms, though perhaps early in the sequence, very uncertainly dated.

i and ii: This monogram was ignored by previous editors, although Franz suggested, on P.9 (CIG 5203), that it might be Christian (from its alleged similarity to a Coptic cross) which is certainly wrong. It is usually found linking a pair of names; in this case, therefore, the partner may therefore have been intended for line 2 of ii. It should be resolved as the term σύγκοιτος/οι; see also P.3, P.9, P.12, P.38, P.39, P.43, P.127, P.133, and perhaps P.400, all ephebic texts. It is not always clear whether it should be resolved in the singular - so x the bedfellow of y - or in the plural: the plural usually makes better sense. The word is more frequently found in the context of heterosexual relationships; it appears to have a distinct sense from the word φίλος, which is also found linking pairs of ephebes - see P.12, where the two terms are both used. The use of a monogram certainly indicates a standardised relationship, and probably something more intimate than the military term contubernalis.