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T.366. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a tabella ansata (c.w: 2.95 x h: 0.37) whose surface is lost except at the right end. Close approach to the stone was prevented by prickly pear trees.
Letters: Second-third century; 0.035.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East IX, East wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]athus
[---] P̣ọḷleṇs
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Diplomatic

[---]ATHUS
[---]...LE.S
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . -]athi=us [ . . . ] Pollens [ . . .

Commentary

For other Latin texts in this quarry see T.363, T.365

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).