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T.458. 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: 0.44 x h: 0.58) outlined in relief, to the right of the door.
Letters: 0.06; L for ἔτους, 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) ιδ´ Ἐπιφὶ
[...] Μητροφά-
νης Ἁμαισ-
ιννα (ἐτῶν) η´

Diplomatic

L ΙΔΕΠΙΦΙ
[···]ΜΗΤΡΟΦΑ
ΝΗΣΑΜΑΙΣ
ΙΝΝΑ L Η

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 14, Epiphi -. Metrofane di Amesinna, di anni 8.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 14, . . . Epiphi, Metrophanes des Amaisinnas, 8 (Jahre).

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 14, Ephiphi ?, Metrophanes (scil. son) of Amaisinnas, aged 8.

Commentary

Line 3: on the name see Masson, 1976, 53

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 387 (261, La.XV.3,5), pp. 219-20, whence SEG 9.651; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 47.b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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