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T.389. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade to the left of the door within a panel (w: 0.27 x h: 0.22) which may have been a tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) α´ Ἁθὺ[ρ ---]
Ἀπ̣ελλᾶϲ
Ἀπελλ {Υ}-
ο̣<ῦ> ἐ̣τ̣ῶ̣ν [.]

Diplomatic

L ΑΑΘΥ[.---]
Α.ΕΛΛΑϹ
ΑΠΕΛΛΥ
....Ν[·]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 1, Hathyr ?, Apellas (scil. son) of Apellas, aged ?

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).