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T.498. 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 gabled panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.22) outlined in relief, above T.496.
Letters: 0.04; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ζ´
Τυβὶ ϛ´
Δημᾶϲ
Πρώρω

Diplomatic

L Ζ
ΤΥΒΙϚ
ΔΗΜΑϹ
ΠΡΩΡΩ

Apparatus

2: ΤΧΚΙϹ Pacho, 1827; Τ[υβ]ὶ [ε΄] CIG, Vol.III
3: Pacho omitted final sigma.
4: ΠΡΕΡΟ Pacho, 1827
3-4: Δημα[ίν]ε[τ]ο[ς] ? CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 7, Tybi 6, Demas son of Prorus.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 7, Tybi 6, Demas (scil. son) of Proros.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5289; Reynolds, 1983, 19.d, whence SEG 33.1424, PHI 324603.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. 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)