Description: Elaborate funerary altar of sandstone,
moulded above and below; (w:
0.75 x h:
1.54 x d:
c. 0.75);
the surface has deteriorated since discovery. Three of the four sides are decorated with swags and rosettes in high relief.
Text: Inscribed on the central one of the three decorated sides.
Letters: Second-third century; 0.05; angular sigma and omega, diamond theta and omicron; L for ἔτους.
Date: Second-third century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Turkish castle; recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
Apparatus
1: Γ(αίου) Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: Ἰουν(ί)ου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: Omitted by Oliverio and SEG.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Di Gaio Sestio Teodoro Giunio altare. Claudia Faustina, la madre, consacrò.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Altar of T(itos) Sestios Loupos (i.e. T(itus) Sestius Lupus) (scil. son) of Theodoros. Kl(audia) Phaustina (i.e. Claudia Faustina) , his mother, dedicated (scil. it). (scil. He was) aged 29.
Commentary
The year in line 4 may be the age of the dead son, but it might be a date.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 476 (346), pl. LXXXVI fig.58, whence SEG 9.554
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Vasari)
Fig. 2. Face, in situ (Reynolds XII.86.2)
Fig. 3. Face (Department of Antiquities, F.1076)
Fig. 4. Detail of text (Department of Antiquities)