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T.531. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with T.530, T.531, T.532, T.533, T.534.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.40) above T.530.
Letters: 0.04 - 0.05; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: 30 January CE 82

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ριβ´ μην-
ὶ Μεχεὶρ ε´
Ϲεραφίω-
ν Θευδώ-
5ρω (ἐτῶν) ιγ´

Diplomatic

L ΡΙΒΜΗΝ
ΙΜΕΧΕΙΡΕ
ϹΕΡΑΦΙΩ
ΝΘΕΥΔΩ
5ΡΩ L ΙΓ

Apparatus

1: ΜΗΝΙ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG
2: Initial Ι omitted by Gray, corrected by Reynolds in SEG
3: Φ : Π Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG
5: ΡΩLLΤΤ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 112, month of Mecheir 5th, Serpion son of Theodoros, ?.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 112, 5. im Monat Mecheir, Seraphion des Thuedoros, 13 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 112, Mecheir 5, Seraphion (scil. son) of Theudoros, aged 13.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 44, lines 1-5, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.909, PHI 324392; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 53.b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.531 above T.530 (Reynolds XII.17)

   Fig. 2. T.531 above T.530 (Reynolds XII.17)