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T.519. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with inscriptions T.516, T.517, T.518, T.519, T.520, T.521, T.522, T.523, T.524, T.525, T.526, T.527, T.528, T.529.
Text: Inscribed within a prepared area, probably triangular-headed, to the right of the door.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

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-κράτηϲ
Ῥούφω

Diplomatic

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ΚΡΑΤΗϹ
ΡΟΥΦΩ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

. . . ]-crates of Rufus.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . -]krates (scil. son) of Rouphos (i.e. Rufus).

Commentary

The name of the deceased is Greek; his father's name is Latin, but given a Doric genetival ending, as in T.511.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 18.d, whence SEG 33.1420, PHI 324599.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.519, with T.516 at the upper left (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra VI.4.5A, Reynolds Tocra IX.3.25a, NS.X.26)

   Fig. 2. Detail (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra VI.4.5A, Reynolds Tocra IX.3.25a, NS.X.26)

   Fig. 3. T.517 and T.518 aboveT.519 below left (Reynolds NS.X.28)