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T.283. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.282 and T.283.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.40), to the right of the door.
Letters: First century BCE - first century CE: 0.04; lunate epsilon, omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; the lines slant upwards to right.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry West VIII, East side.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

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(ἔτους) ε´ ( vac. 5)
Φαρμο<υ>θὶ δ´
Ὀφ̣ελλία
Π̣ω̣λα̣ (ἐτῶν) κε´

Diplomatic

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L Ε          
ΦΑΡΜΟΘΙΔ
Ο.ΕΛΛΙΑ
..Λ. L ΚΕ

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 5, Pharmouthi 4, Ophellia Pola (i.e. Ofellia Pola), aged 25.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.2.23A, NS.VII.23)

   Fig. 2. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.2.23A, NS.VII.23)