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T.411. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.410, T.411, T.412, T.413, T.414, T.415, T.416, T.417, T.418.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel in relief (w: 0.40 x h: 0.28), above T.410 and apparently prepared at the same time.
Letters: 0.045; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XII, South wall. Recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Θώθυ
ζ´ Μά-
κερ Ἰρή-
νας (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΓΘΩΘΥ
ΖΜΑ
ΚΕΡΙΡΗ
ΝΑΣ L Κ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 3, Thothy 27. Macer di Irene, di anni 20.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 3, 27.Thothy, Macer der Irena, 20 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Thoth 7, Maker (i.e. Macer) (scil. son) of Irena, aged 20.

Commentary

This family is taken to be Jewish, on the basis of the names in T.413.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 353 (227, La.XII.4,1), p. 212 and pl. LXXVIII, fig. 39, whence SEG 9.619; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 67.a
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.410 centre, T.411 above, T.412 further above, T.413 below right (Reynolds, NS.X.14)