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T.386. 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 panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.15) above T.387.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν. Lunate sigma.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XI, East wall; first recorded by Pacho in 1825, and by Oliverio, after T.377 and presumably near it.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ϛ´ Ἀρταφὰ[ν]
Ἀρτάφᾶντ-
οϲ (ἐτῶν) λε´

Diplomatic

L ϚΑΡΤΑΦΑ[.]
ΑΡΤΑΦΑΝΤ
ΟϹ L ΛΕ

Apparatus

1: Φ : LϲΑΡΤΑ+ΑΝ Pacho, 1827 Corrected by CIG, correctly read by Oliverio.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 6. Artafàn di Artafàn, di anni 45.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 6, Artaphan son of Artaphan, aged 35.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 6, Artaphan (scil. son) of Artaphan, aged 35.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5267, lines 1-3; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 347 (221, La.XI.2,3), whence SEG 9.613, cited, Applebaum, 1961, 51, on which Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 69; revised Reynolds, 1983, 12.k, whence SEG 33.1398.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

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