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T.317. 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 gabled panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.40) outlined in relief. To the left of the door.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἔτους.

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) α´ Χοιάχι
ει´ Εὐφρά-
νωρ Εὐφ̣-
ράνορος
5καὶ Θαλασσ-
ίδος μηνῶ-
ν ε´

Diplomatic

L ΑΧΟΙΑΧΙ
ΕΙΕΥΦΡΑ
ΝΩΡΕΥ.
ΡΑΝΟΡΟΣ
5ΚΑΙΘΑΛΑΣΣ
ΙΔΟΣΜΗΝΩ
ΝΕ

Apparatus

1: Oliverio omitted the final ι.
4: ΕΑΝΟΡΟΣ Pacho, 1827
5: σσ : Ξ Pacho, 1827; ξ CIG, Vol.III
6: ίδος : ΤΕΟΣ Pacho, 1827
7: ε : Σ Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 1, Choiach 15. Eufranore di Eufranore e di Tassais, di medi 5.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 1, Choiak 15, Euphranor (scil. son) of Euphranor and of Thalassis, aged 5 months.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5288; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 307 (182, La.V.2,4), whence SEG 9.574.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, NS.VIII.18)