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T.303. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade on a surface which is very badly weathered; there are clearly several entries.
Letters:

Date: First to third century CE

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

Interpretive

[---]ΛΟΣΓ[---]
[---]Π̣ΕΥ[---]
[---] ( vac. 3) [---]
[---]Ο̣ΣΙ ( vac. 1) ΠΕ̣[---]
5[---]ΛΑ̣[---]
[---]Σ [c. 4]ονείκου

Diplomatic

[---]ΛΟΣΓ[---]
[---].ΕΥ[---]
[---]      [---]
[---].ΣΙ  Π.[---]
5[---]Λ.[---]
[---]Σ[····]ΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Line 6: apparently the end of a patronymic: Ἀνδρονείκου or perhaps Ἱππονείκου would fit.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).