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T.300. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, to the left of the door, within a roughly rectangular panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.30) badly damaged.
Letters: 0.05; lunate epsilon.

Date: First to third century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East II, East wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ̣´ Τυβ̣ὶ
κϛ̣´ [.] Κάϲ-
ϲιο[ϲ] Λον̣-
γῖν( vac. 1)οϲ
5Ο̣[---]

Diplomatic

L .ΤΥ.Ι
Κ.[·]ΚΑϹ
ϹΙΟ[.]ΛΟ.
ΓΙΝ  ΟϹ
5.[---]

Apparatus

4: The cutter has avoided a break in the stone.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 9, Tybi 26. Kassios Longinos (i.e. Cassius Longinus) [ . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra III.4.14, NS.IV.14)