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T.393. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, which is in very poor condition, with T.393, T.394, T.395, T.396, T.397 and T.398.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.41 x h: 0.47) outlined in relief, the surface badly damaged; above the door.
Letters: 0.035.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

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

Interpretive

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Θεοδ[---]
Θεο[δ---]
Σ̣ΑΛ̣[---]
Μ[---]
5Α[---]
Ε[---]
[---]
ΚΑ[---]

Diplomatic

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ΘΕΟΔ[---]
ΘΕΟ[.---]
.Α.[---]
Μ[---]
5Α[---]
Ε[---]
[---]
ΚΑ[---]

Apparatus

Traces of 10 lines of text; at the beginning the visible text seems to be a name and patronymic, but otherwise only odd letters are legible.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ]Theodotos [ . . . ?(scil. son) of] Theo[d- . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.393 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.2.29, NS.V.29)