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T.472. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is much damaged, with T.472, T.473 and T.474.
Text: Inscribed above the door (no panel), the surface damaged to left.
Letters: 0.08, very rough.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, south side; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]ΧΟ̣ΝΙ̣

Diplomatic

[---]Χ.Ν.

Apparatus

1: Oliverio proposed Χ(ώ)νι(ος)?, SEG suggested Χόνι[ος],but it is not clear that anything is lost to right whereas the layout in relation to the door suggests that something is lost to left. Possibly the final stroke is accidental and the text should be read as a genitive plural -]χων

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Chonio ?

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Not usefully translatable

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 399 (272, La.XV.7,1), whence SEG 9.662.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Left-hand tomb: T.472 over the door, T.473 above left, ?T.474 above, right. Right-hand tomb: T.475 over the door, T.477 above, left, T.476 above, right (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.18A, NS.VII.18)


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