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T.495. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with T.495, T.496, T.497, T.498, T.499, T.500, T.501, T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.508, T.509, T.510, T.511, T.512, T.513, T.514, T.515; there are also a number of illegible panels.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.27) above the door, to the left of T.496
Letters: 0.03; 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) ια´ Με-
χὶρ κ´ Εἰ-
ρήνα
Ἀριστέα
5(ἐτῶν) ε̣´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΜΕ
ΧΙΡΚΕΙ
ΡΗΝΑ
ΑΡΙΣΤΕΑ
5 L .

Apparatus

4: Ἀριστε[ῦς (?) Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: Omitted by Oliverio.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 11, Mecheir 20. Irene di Aristeo ?

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 11, 20.Mechir, Eirena des Aristeas, 5 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Mecheir 20, Eirena (scil. daughter) of Aristes, aged 5.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 417 (291, La.XV.11.11), p. 226, whence SEG 9.680; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 52.a, whence SEG 33.1495, PHI 324670.
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)