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T.372. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.371, T.372, T.373, T.374, T.375.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.36 x h: 0.63) outlined in relief, to the left of the door, below and to the left of T.371.
Letters: 0.05; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν. In line 2. the cutter has avoided a hole in the stone.

Date: First-second centuries CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XI, East wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ´ Φαω-
φὶ δ´ Ἀρ- ( vac. 1)
ταις Κα-
λ( vac. 1) λισθ-
5ένους
(ἐτῶν) η´

Diplomatic

L ΘΦΑΩ
ΦΙΔΑΡ-   
ΤΑΙΣΚΑ
Λ  ΛΙΣΘ
5ΕΝΟΥΣ
L Η

Apparatus

1: Θ : Ε Pacho, 1827; ε CIG, Vol.III
2: The cutter has avoided a hole in the stone.
4: ΑΚΛΙΣΘ Pacho, 1827; λ[λ]ισθ CIG, Vol.III
5: E : Σ Pacho, 1827 ; Pacho omitted this line

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 9, Phaophi 4, Artais (?) daughter of Callisthenes, aged 8.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 9, Phaophi 4, Artais (scil. daughter) of Kallisthenes, aged 8.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5266; ; Reynolds, 1983, 11.b, whence SEG 33.1384 (PHI 324568)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXII)

   Fig. 2. T.372, face, with races of T.373 above (Reynolds, Tocra IX.6.6a, NS.X.6)

   Fig. 3. T.371, with edge of T.372 to the left below, traces of T.373 to the left above (Reynolds, Tocra IX.6.5a, NS.X.5)