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T.521. 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.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.52) outlined by incised lines, on a wall abutting the door to the right, below T.520.
Letters: 0.03; square sigma, cursive omega, 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) β´ Μεχ-
ὶρ η´ Εὐ-
κλείδη-
ϲ Δωϲι-
5θέου
(ἐτῶν) ξ[.]

Diplomatic

L ΒΜΕΧ
ΙΡΗΕΥ
ΚΛΕΙΔΗ
ϹΔΩϹΙ
5ΘΕΟΥ
L Ξ[·]

Apparatus

4: EAINI Gray, 1956
5: ΟΥ Gray, 1956
6: LΞΘΥ Gray, 1956

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 2 Mecheir 8th, Eucleide, daughter of ?, aged 69.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 2, 8.Mechir, Eukleides des Dositheos, 60(+?) (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Mecheir 8, Eukleides (scil. son) of Dositheos, aged 60+.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 37, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.919, PHI 324402; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 50.e.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of T.516, T.520, T.521 (Reynolds XII.94.2)

   Fig. 2. Text