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T.294. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door, to the right, within a rectangular panel (w: 0.78 x h: 0.28).
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: September 7, 60 CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East II, East wall; first recorded in 1911.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ϙα´ Θώθυ
ι´ Λούκιος
Βιλλιῆνος
Ἀνί-
5κητος
(ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

L ϘΑΘΩΘΥ
ΙΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
ΒΙΛΛΙΗΝΟΣ
ΑΝΙ
5ΚΗΤΟΣ
L Λ

Apparatus

1: ϙ omitted by Robinson.
3-4: Κιλλιῆ- Robinson, 1913
4: -νος Ἀνι Robinson, 1913; Ἀνίκητος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: ΙΛΙ (L λ[γ΄]) Robinson, 1913; L αί Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 91, Thothy 10. Lucio Billieno Aniceto, di anni 11.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 91, Thoth 10, Loukios Billienos (i.e. Lucius Billienus) Aniketos, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 111, with a drawing; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 293 (168: La.II.II), whence SEG 9.561.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, NS.VII.37)