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T.384. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.376, T.377, T.378, T.379, T.380, T.381, T.382, T.383, T.384, T.385, T.386, T.387, T.388.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.35) to the left of T.382 and below a niche.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; + for Χ; perhaps L for ἐτῶν, with superscript bar above.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

Ἐπι<φὶ> ια´
Ἀρτάφα-
ντοϲ ἐτ-
ῶν ιε´
5Ἀντιγόν-
α Νικίου
Χοάχι
ε´ <(ἐτῶν) > ξϛ´

Diplomatic

ΕΠΙΙΑ
ΑΡΤΑΦΑ
ΝΤΟϹΕΤ
ΩΝΙΕ
5ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝ
ΑΝΙΚΙΟΥ
ΧΟΑΧΙ
ΕΞϚ

Apparatus

1: L-ΙΠΓΙΑ Pacho, 1827; L ι΄ [Τῦβ]ι α' CIG, Vol.III
2: ΑΟΤΑΦ Pacho, 1827; Ἁ . . . CIG, Vol.III
3: ΛΤΟΣΕΤ Pacho, 1827; -ος ἐτ CIG, Vol.III
4: ωΝΙΕΖ Pacho, 1827; ῶν ιε΄· (καὶ) CIG, Vol.III
6: XOAXI Pacho, 1827; Χοὰ[κ] ι CIG, Vol.III
7: ε=ς Pacho, 1827; ε' [L] ς CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Epeiph 11 (tomb) of Artaphan, aged 15; Antigona daughter of Nicias, Choiak 5, aged 66 (or: year 66)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Epeiph 11 (scil. Tomb) of Artaphan, aged 15; Antigona (scil. daughter) of Nikias, Choiak 5, aged 66 (or, Year 66)

Commentary

Line 1 is far from certain, and may conceal a personal name: perhaps Σ̣ίππ̣ας̣

Line 8: Choiak 5 = December 1; presumably the day of death; but CIG may well be right to interpret as L ς, ἐτῶν ς = aged 6.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5253; Reynolds, 1983, 12.i, whence SEG 33.1396 (PHI 324579)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left: T.384, T.382 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra IX.5.10A, NS.X.10)