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T.348. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed probably on the façade, but perhaps within, since the text accompanies a plan of the tomb.
Letters: No meansurements

Date: Late first century BCE to mid first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: apparently Quarry East VIII, perhaps North wall; first recorded in 1821.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

ΗΙ[.]
ϹΕΛ[..]ΨΙ
Ἰουάνουϲ ἐ-
τῶν [---]

Diplomatic

ΗΙ[·]
ϹΕΛ[··]ΨΙ
ΙΟΥΑΝΟΥϹΕ
ΤΩΝ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] of Ioannes, aged [ . . .

Commentary

The location of this text in Beechey's notenbook suggests that it was found in Quarry VIII.

Bibliography: Copied by Beechey: drawing in Thorn, 2005, fig. 268; text published Thorn, 2006 288, III, whence SEG 56.2038
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Roueché).

Images

None available (2020).