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T.513. 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: 0.30 x h: 0.18) above T.512.
Letters: 0.045.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι̣´ Μεχὶρ ε´
Ἀφροδισία
Ἀλεξᾶ (ἐτῶν) ε´

Diplomatic

L .ΜΕΧΙΡΕ
ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΑ
ΑΛΕΞΑ L Ε

Apparatus

1: - Μεχὶρ ε΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- Mecheir 5. Afrodisia di Alexa, di anni 5.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 10, 5.Mechir, Aphrodisia des Alexas, 5 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Mecheir 5, Aphrodisia (scil. daughter) of Alexas, aged 5.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 424 (298, La.XV.11.15, misprint for 18), p. 227, whence SEG 9.687; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 52.h, whence SEG 33.1501, PHI 324676.
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)

   Fig. 2. T.496 (part), T.497, T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.510, T.511, T.512, T.513 (Reynolds NS.X.34)