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T.404. 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 rectangular panel, still partly buried. (w: 0.24 x h: 0.20). Below T.403.
Letters: c. 0.05; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) κ̣´ Μεχὶρ
α̣´ Γάϊ-
ος Ἰου-
λίου
5 ( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) β´

Diplomatic

L .ΜΕΧΙΡ
.ΓΑΙ
ΟΣΙΟΥ
ΛΙΟΥ
5   L Β

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 20, Mecheir 1, Gaios (i.e. Gaius) (scil. son) of Ioulios (i.e. Julius), aged 2.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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)