Description: Sandstone block
(w:
0.61 x h:
0.34 x d:
0.47), from a group inscribed with
T.28, T.29, T.30,
T.31, T.32, T.34,
T.33.
Text: Inscribed within a deeply but roughly incised tabella ansata,
the left edge lost (w:
0.52 x h:
0.27)
Letters: Line 1, 0.07, lines 2,4, 0.05, line 3, 0.06; lunate sigma
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Gymnasium (later Byzantine Baths), loose on the street wall; found in 1962.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Turbone di Filocalo. Filocalo di Filocalo
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Tourbon (scil. son) of Philokalos. Philokalos (scil. son) of Philokalos.
Commentary
In these ephebic texts it is not always easy to determine the sense of a genitive: 'friend of' or 'son of'. Here we seem to be dealing with family relationships.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 463, whence SEG 9.548.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Face
Fig. 3. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra II.I.27A, NS.III.33)