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Names of ephebes

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1178002
Trismegistos ID: 738726

Source description

Support: Sandstone block re-used in a later building (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed twice on front face.

Letters: Text a : 0.10: text b : 0.07.

Date: Hellenistic

Findspot: Found in 1962 by R.G. Goodchild in Taucheira (the city being probably already re-named Arsinoe at the time of the inscription): re-used int the North tower of the East gate

Place of origin: Taucheira.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1995 in situ at Tūkrah. Not seen by IGCyr team; edited from J.M. Reynolds' observations.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (J.M. Reynolds).

Bibliography

Never published before IGCyr 117800 .

Text

Interpretive

a
Φι(- - -)
b
Σω(- - -)

Diplomatic

a
ΦΙ
b
ΣΩ

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Abbreviated names are common in such ephebic graffiti; there exist many names beginning with Φι and Σω, so that no restoration of names originally written in full nor expansion of abbreviation can be proposed.

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