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T.360. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade to the right of the door within a sunk gabled panel (w: 0.20 x h: 0.30). A second panel, quite illegible, is visible below.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

[(ἔτους) .] Μεχὶρ
[.] Σεκόνδ-
α Πρ̣ί̣σ-
[κ]ου (ἐτῶν) ιε´

Diplomatic

[·]ΜΕΧΙΡ
[·]ΣΕΚΟΝΔ
ΑΠ..Σ
[.]ΟΥ L ΙΕ

Apparatus

2: Σ]εκόν Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3-4: δ]α Πήσ/[σ]ου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- Mecheir -.Seconda di Pesso, di anni 15.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[Year ?], Mecheir ?, Sekonda (i.e. Secunda) (scil. daughter) of Priskos (i.e. Priscus), aged 15.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 338 (212, La.VIII, 6,6), whence SEG 9.604.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, Tocra VII.6.21A)