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T.484. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.483, T.484, T.485 and T.486.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.02 x h: 0.27) outlined in relief, to the left of T.483.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ̣´ Χοιά[χι]
[..] Μ(ᾶρκος) Λ̣υ-
κιά( vac. 1)νιος
Νίλ̣ων
5(ἐτῶν) π´

Diplomatic

L .ΧΟΙΑ[..]
[··]Μ.Υ
ΚΙΑ  ΝΙΟΣ
ΝΙ.ΩΝ
5 L Π

Apparatus

1: ΑΧΣΙΑ Pacho, 1827; L αʹ Χ[οι]ὰ[κ] CIG, Vol.III
2: . . ΜΑΥ Pacho, 1827; . . Μα[ρ] CIG, Vol.III
3: ΕΙΑΝΙ Pacho, 1827; [κ]ιαν[ὴ] CIG, Vol.III
4: ΝΙΑΩΝ Pacho, 1827; Νί[κ]ων[ος] CIG, Vol.III Perhaps Νίκ̣ων
5: L Γʹ Pacho, 1827; L γʹ CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 4, Choiak ?, M(arkos) Lukianos (i.e. M(arcus) Lucianus) Nilon, aged 80.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5322, lines 1-5.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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