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T.368. Funerary inscriptions

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade within a prepared rectangular area (w: 0.41 x h: 0.85).
Letters: 0.08; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East IX, North wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γι´ ( vac. 3)
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
(ἔτους) γι´ ( vac. 1)
Εἰ̣ρ̣ή-
ν̣α Φι-
5λίϲκο-
( vac. 3) υ
(ἐτῶν) η̣´

Diplomatic

L ΓΙ      
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
L ΓΙ  
Ε..Η
.ΑΦΙ
5ΛΙϹΚΟ
      Υ
L .

Apparatus

1-3: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Omitted by Oliverio.
4: - Λυκίσ] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: ϲ]κοϲ [Λυ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
6: κίσκου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
8: L ιη' Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Licisco di Licisco, di anni 18

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 13 [ . . . ] Year 13 [ . ] Eirena (scil. daughter) of Philiskos aged 8.

Commentary

One or two lines are probably lost between 1 and 2, but it is also possible that the cutter ran into faults in the stone and started again lower down.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 341 (215, La.IX.1), whence SEG 9.607
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.3.25, NS.V.25)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.2.26, NS.V.26)