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T.488. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel beside the door (w: 0.39 x h: 0.56), outlined in relief.
Letters: ave. 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; rather irregular.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ϛ´ Ἐπιφὶ βι´
Κάνδιδος
Ἑρενν<ί>ου
(ἐτῶν) ιθ´

Diplomatic

L ϚΕΠΙΦΙΒΙ
ΚΑΝΔΙΔΟΣ
ΕΡΕΝΝΟΥ
L ΙΘ

Apparatus

1: ς' : Ϲ Pacho, 1827; Ε Gray, 1956 ; Φ : Τ Pacho, 1827
4: Line omitted by Pacho; L ΙΕ Gray, 1956

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 6, Epiphi 12. Candido di Erennio, di anni 19.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 5 (?), Epiphi 12th, Candidus, son of Herennus, aged 15.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 6, 12.Epiphi, Candidus des Herennius, 19 (Jahre).

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 6, Epeiph 12, Kandidos (i.e. Candidus) (scil. son) of Herennios (i.e. Herrenius), aged 19.

Commentary

Oliverio also records here an item numbered 416 (279) - although there is another 416 - apparently in the same block: Letters, 0.11: Ἑ]ρεν[νίου ?

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5305; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 405 (278, La.XV.11.1), whence SEG 9.668; Gray, 1956, 41, whence, with comment from J. Reynolds, SEG 16.920, PHI 324403, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 49.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX.3.27A, NS.X.27)