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T.85. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.82 x h: 0.53) from the City Wall
Text: Two texts incised on the face, i to the left, ii within a wreath.
Letters: i: 0.08; ii: 0.03 .

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.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Δάχις
Ἀρίμμα
ii
[(ἔτους) .]
[...] Ὀκτ[ά-]
ουις [---]
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Diplomatic

i
ΔΑΧΙΣ
ΑΡΙΜΜΑ
ii
[·]
[···]ΟΚΤ[.-]
ΟΥΙΣ[---]
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Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

i: Dachis di Arimma. ii: -Ottavio

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i): Dachis (scil. son) of Arimmas. (ii): . . . ] Oktaouis (i.e. Octavius) [ . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 246-247 (VII,122), whence SEG 9.506, SEG 9.507.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).