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T.460. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.460 and T.461
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (not measured) the face overgrown with lichen, above the door to the left.
Letters: Lunate sigma, four stroke sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, south wall, next to nos. T.451-T.459.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Θώθυ α̣´
Ἀνδροϲθ̣έ-
νης [c. 4]Ο̣
Φιλαργύρο[υ]
5(ἐτῶν) κγ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΘΩΘΥ.
ΑΝΔΡΟϹ.Ε
ΝΗΣ[····].
ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΟ[.]
5 L ΚΓ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 11, Thothy 1, Androsthenes ?son of Philargyros, aged 23.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 11, Thoth 1, Androsthenes [ . . (scil. son?)] of Philargyros, aged 23.

Commentary

Line 3: It is not clear that anything was written after the name.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 17.a, whence SEG 33.1419, PHI 324598.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra VIII.3.20, NS.IX.20)