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T.526. 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 roughly rectangular prepared area (w: 0.035 x h: 0.20) below T.525 and to the left of T.523.
Letters:

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1952.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ´ Μεχεὶρ [.]
Δωσ[ίθε]ος
Δω[σιθέου]
(ἐτῶν) [---]

Diplomatic

L ΔΜΕΧΕΙΡ[·]
ΔΩΣ[...]ΟΣ
ΔΩ[......]
L [---]

Apparatus

1: L ΙΔ ΜΕΧΕΙΡ Gray, 1956; L δ´ [---] SEG
2: ΔΩΣΙΘΕΟΣ Gray, 1956; Δωσ[ίθε]ος SEG
3: Δ Gray, 1956; Δωσ[ίθεος] SEG
4: Omitted by Gray; supplied by Reynolds, in SEG.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 14, Mecheir, Dositheos son of . . .

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 4 (?) . . .Dositheos des Dositheos, . . . (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 4, Mexeir ?, Dositheos (scil. son) of Do[sitheos], aged ?

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 31, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.915, PHI 324398; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.h.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, T.526 (part),T.523; T.528, T.527, T.524 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra IX.3.24a, NS.X.24)