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T.459. 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 damaged panel to the right of T.458.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

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

Interpretive

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[---]ΑΝ
[---]ΟΑ
[---]ευς
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Diplomatic

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[---]ΑΝ
[---]ΟΑ
[---]ΕΥΣ
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Perhaps a reference to Androsthenes, as in T.452 and T.460, T.457.

Bibliography: Mentioned Reynolds, 1983, 16.i.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII.5.11)