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T.423. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a rectangular panel (w: 0.44 x h: 0.22).
Letters: 0.055; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XIII, West wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Γ(αῖοϲ) Ἰούλιο[ϲ]
Μάγνοϲ
ἐποίηϲ̣εν

Diplomatic

ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟ[.]
ΜΑΓΝΟϹ
ΕΠΟΙΗ.ΕΝ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

G. Giulio Magno fece.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

G(aios) Ioulios Magnos (i.e. G(aius) Julius Magnus) made (scil. this tomb).

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 362 (236, La.XIII.1), pl LXXIX, fig. 41, whence SEG 9.628.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View (Department of Antiquities, F.1070)