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T.345. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.345 and T.346
Text: Inscribed within a panel whose lower limit was defined by an incised line, broken above and to either side. Above T.346.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East VIII, north wall, to the left of the entrance. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

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[---]β̣ατα̣[---]
[---]χ̣[ω]νος (ἐτῶν) ι̣´

Diplomatic

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[---].ΑΤ.[---]
[---].[.]ΝΟΣ L .

Apparatus

1-2: Βατω/νος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 whence LGPN VI-60783

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Di Baton, di anni -

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . -]bata[- (scil. child) of -]chon, aged 10.

Commentary

Line 1. Perhaps from a name like Παραιβάτας.

Line 2. Aged 10; but the figure might also be ή - aged 8.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 323 (198, La. VIII.3, 1), whence SEG 9.589
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.345 above, T.346 below (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra III.3.27, NS.III.27)