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T.403. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb on the façade with T.403 and T.404; there is also a large gabled panel to the left of the door which seems never to have been used.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.21) outlined in relief.
Letters: 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν

Date: ?50 CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XII.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) π̣´ Με-
ϲ̣ο̣ρὴ γ´
ΚΕΙ̣Ο̣Ρ
ΟΞΙ̣Ρ̣Ι̣
5Λ̣Θ̣ΕΓ̣Χ̣Ρ-
Α (ἐτῶν) α̣ι̣´

Diplomatic

L .ΜΕ
..ΡΗΓ
ΚΕ..Ρ
ΟΞ...
5..Ε..Ρ
Α L ..

Apparatus

1: The numeral may be Γ.
2:

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 80 (or 3), Mesore 3, - - -, aged 11.

Commentary

Line 1: The first figure may be Γ, so 3.

Lines 2-4: The name is obscure - perhaps α feminine ending -ρια with a patronymic Θευχρᾶ related to Θεύχρηστος.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.403 above, T.404 below (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX.4.19A, NS.X.19)

   Fig. 2. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX.4.19A, NS.X.19)