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T.528. 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: 0.14 x h: 0.50) outlined in relief, to the left of T.527.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) β´ Μ-
εϲορ-
ὴ τρί-
τη Ϲω-
5γένη-
ϲ Ἰω̣ϲή-
π̣ω εἰ-
κ̣ο̣ϲ̣ι̣τ̣-
έϲερα̣
10 [ἐτῶν]

Diplomatic

L ΒΜ
ΕϹΟΡ
ΗΤΡΙ
ΤΗϹΩ
5ΓΕΝΗ
ϹΙ.ϹΗ
.ΩΕΙ
.....
ΕϹΕΡ.
10[....]

Apparatus

2: ΕϹΟΡΙ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds, in SEG 16.
5: ΓΕΝ Ι Gray, 1956 γένη[ϲ]: Reynolds, in SEG 16.
6: Omitted by Gray, supplied by Reynolds, in SEG 16.
7: [ . ]Κ Gray, 1956 Ἰωσή: Reynolds, in SEG 16, whence LGPN VI-60744.
8: [ . ]ΕΤΕΙ Gray, 1956 κος/ἐτ · Reynolds, in SEG 16.
9: Omitted by Gray; εσε . . supplied by Reynolds, in SEG 16
10: ΕΟϹ Gray, 1956 probably from line 8.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 2, Mesori 8th, Tri . . . te, daughter of Sogen(es) . . .

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 2, dritter Mesore, Sogenes des Josepos, vierundzwanzig [(Jahre)]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Mesore 3, Sogenes (scil. son) of Iosepos, [aged] 24.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 32, whence, with readings from J.M. Reynolds, SEG 16.916, PHI 324399; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.i, whence SEG 33.1492, PHI 324667.
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)