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T.452. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.451, T.452, T.453, T.454, T.455, T.456, T.457, T.458, and T.459; the surface is badly worn so that a number of panels are illegible.
Text: Inscribed in a gabled panel (w: 0.34 x h: 0.46) to the left of the door, and high up, above T.453.
Letters: 0.045; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

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

Interpretive

[(ἔτους)] ε´ Μ̣εσ̣[ορὴ]
ϛ̣´ Ἀνδροσ-
θένης
Ἀνδροσ-
5θένους
(ἐτῶν) ξ̣ζ´

Diplomatic

[]Ε.Ε.[...]
.ΑΝΔΡΟΣ
ΘΕΝΗΣ
ΑΝΔΡΟΣ
5ΘΕΝΟΥΣ
L

Apparatus

1: ΕΜΕ Pacho, 1827; [L] ε΄ Με[χεὶρ] or Με[σορὴ] CIG, Vol.III
2: ς : ζ Pacho, 1827 So CIG.
5: ΘΕ Pacho, 1827; Θέ[νους] CIG, Vol.III
6: ΖΖ Pacho, 1827; [L . . CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 5, Mesore 6, Androsthenes son of Androsthenes, aged 67.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 5, Mesore 6, Androsthenes (scil. son) of Androsthenes, aged 67.

Commentary

Line 1: The year is restored from Pacho's drawing.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5252; Reynolds, 1983, 16.b, whence SEG 33.1413, PHI 324594.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. T.452; below, from left T.455, T.453, T.451 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII.4.17)

   Fig. 3. T.452, detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII.4.17)