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T.315. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.315, T.316, T.317, T.318; connected, as the names of its owners show, with T.319, T.320, T.321.
Text: Inscribed within a panel outlined in relief (w: 0.40 x h: 0.71), originally gabled; the gable has been almost entirely removed to make room for T.318. Above the door, to the left.
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: Perhaps first century A.D

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιδ´ Θώθυ
ι´ Θαλασ-
σὶς Εὐφρά-
νορος (ἐτῶν) ιη´

Diplomatic

L ΙΔΘΩΘΥ
ΙΘΑΛΑΣ
ΣΙΣΕΥΦΡΑ
ΝΟΡΟΣ L ΙΗ

Apparatus

1: L ιδ΄ : LA Pacho, 1827; L α΄ CIG, Vol.III
4: ΝΟΡΘΣ Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 14, Thothy 10. Talassis di Eufranore, di anni 18.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 14, Thoth 10, Thalassis (scil. daughter) of Euphranor, aged 18.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5293; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 305 (180, La. V.2,2), pl.LXXVII, fig.37, whence SEG 9.572
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. T.315 below left, T.318 above, T.316to the right (Department of Antiquities, F. 1071)

   Fig. 3. Text, detail (Department of Antiquities, F. 1071)

   Fig. 4. Text (Joyce Reynolds, NS.VIII.19)

   Fig. 5. Face: T.315, T.318 above, T.316 to the right (Reynolds XII.52)