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T.416. 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 (w: 0.32 x h: 0.46) outlined in relief, the surface pitted; below T.417, to the right of T.414.
Letters: 0.03; square sigma; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the figures in line 1, 3.

Date: CE 59/60

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ϛ´ Εὐπ[ρ]όϲυν-
ος Ϲ̣ι̣λίου ἔζ-
ηϲε̣ν ἔτη λ´ καὶ
ἀπέθανε· (ἔτους) ϙ̣´ Λύ-
5κοϲ Μουϲ̣[αίο]υ ἔ-
ζηϲεν ἔ[τ]η κε´
καὶ [ἀ]πέθα-
νε

Diplomatic

L ϚΕΥΠ[.]ΟϹΥΝ
ΟΣ..ΛΙΟΥΕΖ
ΗϹ.ΝΕΤΗΛΚΑΙ
ΑΠΕΘΑΝΕ L .ΛΥ
5ΚΟϹΜΟΥ.[...]ΥΕ
ΖΗϹΕΝΕ[.]ΗΚΕ
ΚΑΙ[.]ΠΕΘΑ
ΝΕ

Apparatus

1: Ε[ὐφρ]οσύν - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
2: [Ἰο]υλίου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: Ι for q Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: Μου[σαίο]υ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
7: [ἀπ]έθα Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 10. Eufrosino di Giulio visse anni 30 e morì.

Anno 10. Lico di Museo visse anni 25 e morì

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 6 Euprosynos des Silius, lebte 30 Jahre und starb; (Jahr) 90, Lykos des Musaios, lebte 25 Jahre und starb

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 6, Euprosynos (scil. son) of Siliοs (i.e. Silius) lived 30 years and died.

Year 90, Lykos (scil. son) of Mousaios lived 25 years and died.

Commentary

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

Lines 1 and 4: If line 4 is correctly read, this is 90 of the Actian era = CE 59/60, so in line 1 year 6 of the reign of Nero.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 358 (232, La.XII.4,6), p.213, pl. LXXVIII, fig. 40, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1938.561, SEG 9.624; Reynolds, 1968, 185, 192; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 67.e whence SEG 33.1531, PHI 324706.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. At left: T.415, above T.414, above T.413; centre, T.417 above T.416. (Reynolds, NS.X.13)