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T.485. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.483, T.484, T.485 and T.486.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.21) below T.484.
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) ε´ Θώθυ
λ´ Σ̣ε̣κ̣ό̣ν-
δα Μίδα
(ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

L ΕΘΩΘΥ
Λ....Ν
ΔΑΜΙΔΑ
L Λ

Apparatus

1: LΕΟϹΟΥ Pacho, 1827; L εʹ [Θῶθ]υ CIG, Vol.III
2: ΛΣΕΙΟΝ Pacho, 1827; λʹ Σεῖον ? CIG, Vol.III
3: ʹΑΜΙΔΑ Pacho, 1827; [Εὐδ]αμίδα CIG, Vol.III
4: Omitted by Pacho and CIG.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 5, Thoth 30, Sekonda (i.e. Secunda) (scil. daughter), of Midas, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5322, lines 6-8.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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