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T.527. 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 roughly rectangular area, perhaps gabled (w: 0.29 x h: 0.42) below T.526 and to the left of T.524.
Letters: 0.04; square sigma; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; from line 2 onwards, the lines slope sharply downwards.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Θώθ̣-
[υ] γ´ Ἁ
γηϲ̣ιτ<ί>μ-
α Πτυλᾶ
5(ἐτῶν) οα´

Diplomatic

L ΓΘΩ.
[.]ΓΑ
ΓΗ.ΙΤΜ
ΑΠΤΥΛΑ
5 L ΟΑ

Apparatus

4: Πτυλα Reynolds, 1983 for Πτολᾶς, whence LGPN V1-60825

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 3, Thoth 3, ?, daughter of Ptulas, aged 71.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 3, Thoth 3, Hagesitima (scil. daughter) of Ptylas, aged 71.

Commentary

Line 4: Πτυλᾶς, attested elsewhere as a short-form of Ptolemaios (Dobias-Lalou).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 18.l, whence SEG 33.1423, PHI 324602.
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)