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T.520. 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 sunk gabled panel (w: 0.27 x h: 0.52) on a wall abutting the door to the right, above T.521.
Letters: 0.04.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ´ Ἐπ̣αγο-
μένων [.]
Μάρα Πτ-
ολεμαί-
5ου (ἐτῶν) κβ´

Diplomatic

L ΘΕ.ΑΓΟ
ΜΕΝΩΝ[·]
ΜΑΡΑΠΤ
ΟΛΕΜΑΙ
5ΟΥ L ΚΒ

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 9, . . . der Zusatztage, Mara des Ptolemaios, 22 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 9, Epagomen ?, Mara, daughter of Ptolemaios, aged 22.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 9, ? of the intercalary days, Mara (scil. daughter) of Ptolemaios, aged 22.

Commentary

Line 3: For the name Mara see Lüderitz, loc.cit.

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 36, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, SEG 16.918, PHI 324401; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 50.d.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.516 (above the door), T.520 above T.521 (Reynolds XII.94.2)

   Fig. 2. T.520 (detail)