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T.278. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade beside the door within a number of panels, with T.276, T.277, T.278, T.279, T.280, T.281 and others too worn to read.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.36 x h: 0.25), below T.277.
Letters: First century CE; 0.04; L for ἔτους.

Date: 79 CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry West VII, south wall of the dromos.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρ̣ι´ Θώθυ [.]
[---]α̣μ̣α̣ς̣
Θ̣έωνος
(ἐτῶν) κε´

Diplomatic

L .ΙΘΩΘΥ[·]
[---]....
.ΕΩΝΟΣ
L ΚΕ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 110, Thoth ?, [ -]amas (scil. son) of Theon, aged 25.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.4.28A, NS.V.40)