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T.281. 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: 0.33 x h: 0.20), below T.280.
Letters: First century BCE - first century CE; 0.02 - 0.025; lunate omega; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

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

Interpretive

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[Κ]αλλίμαχος
Καλλιμάχω
(ἐτῶν) λα´

Diplomatic

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[.]ΑΛΛΙΜΑΧΟΣ
ΚΑΛΛΙΜΑΧΩ
L ΛΑ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Kallimachos (scil. son) of Kallimachos, aged 31.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View, T.279 above, T.280 centre, T.281 below (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.4.29A, NS.V.41)

   Fig. 2. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.4.29A, NS.V.41)