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T.444. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.441, T.442, T.443, T.444, T.445, and T.446.
Text: Inscribed in a gabled panel (w: 0.33 x h: 0.28) outlined by an incised line, below T.443.
Letters: 0.04; L ?with a dot for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: Late first century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South Side. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιγ´ Ἐπει-
φὶ ιε̣´
Κριτολᾶ
Λυσία
(ἐτῶν) λε´

Diplomatic

L ΙΓΕΠΕΙ
ΦΙΙ.
ΚΡΙΤΟΛΑ
ΛΥΣΙΑ
L ΛΕ

Apparatus

1: Ἐπει : ΕΠΙΡ Pacho, 1827; Ἐπ[ει] CIG, Vol.III; ἐπι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
2: ιεʹ : ΙΓ Pacho, 1827; ιγ΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: ΚΡΙΤΟΑΝ Pacho, 1827; Κτριτό[λας] CIG, Vol.III; Κρίτων Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: ΚΑΓ Pacho, 1827; καʹ L or L λγʹ CIG, Vol.III

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 13, Epiphi 15. Criton di Lisia, di anni 35.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 13, 15.Epiphim, Kritola des Lysias, 35 (Jahre).

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 13, Epeiph 15, Kritola (scil. daughter) of Lysias, aged 35.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5311 lines 1-5; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 384 (258, La.XV.3,2), p. 219, whence SEG 9.649; with readings from J.M. Reynolds, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 46.b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXV)

   Fig. 2. T.443 above T.444, T.446 below right (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII.4.16)

   Fig. 3. T.446, with T.444 to the right (Joyce Reynolds, NS.IX.8)