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T.287. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade above and to the right of the door, with T.286 and T.287.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel outlined by a deeply incised line (w: 0.28 x h: 0.33) which impinges on T.286; the face is badly worn.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.

Date: First to third century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ´ Θώθυ δ̣´
Λ̣(ούκιος) Π̣ρ̣αε-
σί̣τ̣ι̣ος
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Diplomatic

L ΘΘΩΘΥ.
...ΑΕ
Σ...ΟΣ
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 9, Thoth, 4, L(oukios) Praesitios (i.e. L(ucius) Praesidius)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of T.286 and T.287 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.5.35A, NS.V.47)

   Fig. 2. T.287, close-up (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.5.35A, NS.V.47)