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T.355. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.355, T.356, T.357, T.358, T.359. The surface is badly worn.
Text: Inscribed above the door, to the right, in a sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.24).
Letters: 0.04; for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century A. D.

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East VIII, South wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [.] Χοιά̣-
χ̣ι̣ [.] Π(όπλιος) Σήδι-
ος Σκευᾶς
(ἐτῶν) ξ´

Diplomatic

L [·]ΧΟΙ.
..[·]ΠΣΗΔΙ
ΟΣΣΚΕΥΑΣ
L Ξ

Apparatus

1: Omitted by Oliverio and so by SEG.
2: - -ι- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- Sceva, di anni 60.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) ?, ?.Choiachi, P(ublius) Sedios Scaeva, 60 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ? Choiak ?, P(oplios) Sedios Skeuas, (i.e. P(ublius) Sedius Scaeva), aged 60.

Commentary

On the names see Lüderitz.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 337 (211, La.VIII, 6,5), p. 209, whence SEG 9.603; with readings from J.M. Reynolds, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 43.a, whence SEG 33.1476, PHI 324650.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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