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T.476. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is much damaged, with T.475, T.476, T.477
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.18) badly damaged to right. Above T.475, to the right of T.477.
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, south side; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) η´ Ἐπιφὶ
γ´ Εὐτέρ
πη Θευδό
του (ἐτῶν) κβ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΗΕΠΙΦΙ
ΓΕΥΤΕΡ
ΠΗΘΕΥΔΟ
ΤΟΥ L Κ.

Apparatus

1: L ΗΕΠΙΦΙΩ Pacho, 1827; L [ι]η΄ Ἐπιφὶ . . . CIG, Vol.III; L η̣΄ - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
2: ΤΕΡ seen by Pacho, but not later. Oliverio read no letters in this line
3: ΕΥΔ seen by Pacho, but not later. Oliverio read no letters in this line
4: ΤΟΥLΚL Pacho, 1827; του L κ[ε΄] CIG, Vol.III; που L κδ΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 8, - . - di - po, di anni 24.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 8, Epeiph 3, Euterpe (scil. daughter) of Theudotos, aged 22.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5265; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 401 (274, La.XV.7,3), not citing Pacho/CIG, whence SEG 9.664; cited, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 68.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. 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)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.18A, NS.VII.18)