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T.305. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.304 and T.305; there is a third, illegible, panel below T.305.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.23) to the right of T.304 and of the door.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century A.D

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East III, South wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) β´ Θώθυ
ε̣κ´ Β̣άσ-
σος Καρ-
νήδα (ἐτῶν) κε´

Diplomatic

L ΒΘΩΘΥ
.Κ.ΑΣ
ΣΟΣΚΑΡ
ΝΗΔΑ L ΚΕ

Apparatus

1: I O ΘΩΘΥ Pacho, 1827 the first two letters underlined.; L ιθʹ Θῶθυ ι CIG, Vol.III
2: ΩΚ ΑΣ Pacho, 1827; θʹ [Β]ασ CIG, Vol.III
4: ΝΗΔΑΙΚΞ Pacho, 1827; νήδα L ιεʹ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 ; so SEG.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 2, Thothy 25. Bassi di Carneda, di anni 15.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Thoth 25, Bassos (i.e. Bassus) (scil. son) of Karnedas, aged 25.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5309; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 297 (172, La. III.I.2), whence SEG 9.565.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXVI)

   Fig. 2. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VII.1.27A, NS.VIII.27)