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T.401. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade within a panel (w: 0.42 x h: 0.20).
Letters: 0.05; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XI, West wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) η´ Β̣αινήα-
ς Ἀρτεμι-
δ<ώ>ρου (ἐτῶν) π´

Diplomatic

L Η.ΑΙΝΗΑ
ΣΑΡΤΕΜΙ
ΔΡΟΥ L Π

1: LΙΠΕΑΙΝΗΑ Pacho, 1827; L ιε΄ Αἰνήα/ς CIG, Vol.III; η΄ [Β]αινήα Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Β or Κ for SEG.
2: Pacho adds Δ at the end. Σ Ἀρτεμιδ CIG, Vol.III
3: ΟΥ Γ Pacho, 1827; [ώρ]/ου γ CIG, Vol.III; [ώ]ρου L π' Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 8. Benea di Artemidoro, di anni 80.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 8, Baineas (?) (scil. son) of Artemidoros, aged 80.

Commentary

Line 1: Perhaps ηκ΄ Αἰνήα/ς, or even Κ̣αρ̣νῆδ̣[α]/ς.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5246, with the wrong plate number; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 348 (222, La.XI.3), whence SEG 9.614
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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