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T.480. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.480, T.481 and T.482
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.26) to the right of the door, high up, above T.481.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ϛ´ Φαρμο-
υθὶ̣ ε̣ι´ Ἀρι-
στοκράτ-
ης Μενε̣-
5λάου (ἐτῶν) ξ´

Diplomatic

L ϚΦΑΡΜΟ
ΥΘ..ΙΑΡΙ
ΣΤΟΚΡΑΤ
ΗΣΜΕΝ.
5ΛΑΟΥ L Ξ

Apparatus

1: LΙΘΑΡΜΟ Pacho, 1827; L ι΄ [Φ]αρμο CIG, Vol.III
2: ΥϹ.ΙΑΡΙ Pacho, 1827; υ[θὶ] ι Ἀρι CIG, Vol.III
4: ΗΣΑϹΝΙ Pacho, 1827; ης Ἀ[γησ]ι CIG, Vol.III
5: ΛΑΟΥΣΞ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 6, Pharmouthi 15, Aristokles (scil. son) of Menelaos, aged 60.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5263
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. T.480 above, T.481 below (Joyce Reynolds, NS.V.36)

   Fig. 3. T.480 above, T.481 below; corner of T.482 upper right (Joyce Reynolds, IV.1.34, NS.V.34)

   Fig. 4. T.480, lines 3-5 (Joyce Reynolds, IV.1.34, NS.V.34)