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T.270. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, to the left of the door, with T.270, T.271 and T.272.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk cone-shaped panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.57), to the right of T.271. On the surface to the right of the panel there is a sign, Ψ.
Letters: First century BCE - first century CE; 0.05; lunate epsilon, sigma; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry West VII, west wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ´ Ἐπῖ-
φ ι´ Ϲεκόν-
δα Ἀλεξ-
ᾶ (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

L ΔΕΠΙ
ΦΙϹΕΚΟΝ
ΔΑΑΛΕΞ
Α L Λ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 4, Epeiph 10, Sekonda (i.e. Seconda), (scil. daughter) of Alexas, aged 30

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.271 to the left, T.270 to the right (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VII.5.10A, NS.VIII.10)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VII.5.10A, NS.VIII.10)