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T.299. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.295, T.296, T.297, T.298, and T.299; there are also three illegible panels.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk gabled panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.70) To the right of T.298.
Letters: 0.045; lunate epsilon,omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; two different hands.

Date: First century A.D

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East II; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Ϲεκόν-
δα (ἐτῶν) γ´
Μενελ-
άου̣ (ἔτους) ι̣β´ Φ̣-
5αμεν̣ὼτ
δ´

Diplomatic

ϹΕΚΟΝ
ΔΑ L Γ
ΜΕΝΕΛ
ΑΟ. L .Β.
5ΑΜΕ.ΩΤ
Δ

Apparatus

2-3: δα Σί/μωνος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4-5: Ἁθὺ[ρ] β΄ Φα/με[ν]ὼτ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Seconda di Simone, Hathyr 2 Phamenoth 4

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Sekonda (i.e. Secunda), aged 3 (scil. daughter) of Menelaos, year 12, Phamenoth 4.

Commentary

The order of items is unusual; filiation and date of death appear to have been added later.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 295, whence SEG 9.563; cited, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 68.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.5.34, NS.VII.34)