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T.334. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, to the right of that with T.335.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a prepared rectangular area (w: 0.60 x h: 0.30).
Letters: 0.07; two hands, oblique stroke alpha, lunate sigma, cursive omega; i: superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen; ii: similar to the hand of T.335.

Date: Perhaps first century A.D

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East VI, East wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Γ(αίου) Ἰουλίου
ii
Ἀϲκλάπω
τῶ καὶ Λό-
πω

Diplomatic

i
ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ
ii
ΑϹΚΛΑΠΩ
ΤΩΚΑΙΛΟ
ΠΩ

Apparatus

i.1: ΕΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ Pacho, 1827; Εἰουλίου CIG, Vol.III
ii.1: Π : ΤΙ Pacho, 1827
ii.2: τῶ καὶ : ΤΩϹΑΙ Pacho, 1827; ω[νος . . . CIG, Vol.III
ii.3: Omitted by CIG.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Di G. Guilio Asclapos, detto anche Lupo

English translation

Translation by: Editors

i: (scil. Tomb) of G(aios Ioulios(i.e. G(aius) Julius). ii: (scil. Tomb) of Asklapos, also called Loupos (i.e. Lupus).

Commentary

Oliverio does not distinguish the two hands, and reads this as a single text.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5302; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 316 (191, La. VI.2), whence SEG 9.582
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra III.4.16, NS.IV.16)

   Fig. 3. View of T.335 and T.334 (Department of Antiquities, F.127)

   Fig. 4. Face (Department of Antiquities, F.127)


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