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T.729. Fragmentary ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block.
Text: Incised on the face, within a wreath (0.30)
Letters: L for ἔτους; lunate sigma

Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Recorded in 1910, re-used upside down in a tower "southwest of guard-house near palms", which is not now an identifiable location.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1910)

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [.]
Κάφα̣[---]
-α̣ω̣ϲ̣κ̣α̣ν̣[ου]
τὸ γ´ ἔ-
5φ[ηβ]οϲ

Diplomatic

L [·]
ΚΑΦ.[---]
......[..]
ΤΟΓΕ
5Φ[..]ΟϹ

Apparatus

2: ΚΑΦΛ Robinson, 1913
3: ΑΩϹΚΑΝ Robinson, 1913
5: ΦΛ ΟϹ Robinson, 1913

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year ?. Kapha[- . . . ] , three times an ephebe.

Commentary

The reconstruction is offered as a guess only; for the proposal in the last two lines cf. T.44 τρὶς ἔφηβος, and discussion there

Robinson suggested L κα΄ Φ[αμενὼθκ΄] Ἀντ[ώνιος] Φλ[αοῦ]ος

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 107, with a drawing: 'copy probably inaccurate' (Robinson).
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).