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T.493. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is still partly buried, with texts T.489, T.490, T.491, T.492, T.493, T.494.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.28) to the right of T.491.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: August 30, CE 76

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, south wall; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

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Δωσιθ[έου]
(ἐτῶν) ϛ´
5(ἔτους) ρζ´ Θώθυ β´
Ἁγεμόνα
Νικάω
(ἐτῶν) να´

Diplomatic

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ΔΩΣΙΘ[...]
L Ϛ
5 L ΡΖΘΩΘΥΒ
ΑΓΕΜΟΝΑ
ΝΙΚΑΩ
L ΝΑ

Apparatus

3: Δοσιθ[έου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: L ιζ' Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

-- di Dositeo, di anni 6. Anno 17, Thothy 2. Agemona di Niceo, di anni 51.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

. . . des Dositheos, 6 (Jahre);

(Jahr) 107, 2.Thothy, Hagemona des Nikaios, 51 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . (scil. child)] of Dositheos, aged 6.

Year 107, Thoth 2, Hagemona (scil. daughter) of Nikaios, aged 51.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 416 (290, La.XV.11.10), p. 225, pl. LXXXI, fig. 46, whence SEG 9.679; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 51.e, whence SEG 33.1494, PHI 324669.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of the façade. From left: First group: T.489, T.490, T.491, T.492, ?T.493, ?T.494; second group: T.499 above T.498 above T.495 and T.496, T.500 above T.497, T.501 above T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.509 above T.510 above T.511, T.515 aboveT.514 above T.513 above T.512. (Reynolds XII.9)