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T.434. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.428, T.429, T.430, T.431, T.432, T.433, T.434, T.435, T.436, T.437, T.438.
Text: Inscribed in an undefined rectangular area (w: 0.18 x h: 0.10), below T.433.
Letters: 0.035; lunate epsilon, cursive omega, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XIV. First recorded in 1936; not reported subsequently.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [---]
( vac. 1) Ἀλεξάν-
δρω
(ἐτῶν) ζ´

Diplomatic

L [---]
  ΑΛΕΞΑΝ
ΔΡΩ
L Ζ

Apparatus

1: - Ἁ]θ[ὺρ - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 We cannot see the Θ which Oliverio read.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Hathyr -, - di Alessandro, di anni 7.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) . . , . .Hathyr (?) des Alexander, 7 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ? [ . . . (scil. child)] of Alexander, aged 7.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 373 (247, La.XIV.3,7), p. 216, pl. LXXXI, fig. 45, whence SEG 9.638; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 44.g.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).