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T.533. 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 sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.38 x h: 0.43) to the left of T.532.
Letters: Line 1, 0.06; lines 2-6, 0.04; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι´ Ἀριϲτ-
όβολοϲ Ϲε-
ραπίωνοϲ
(ἐτῶν) π´ Μεϲορ-
5ὴ κε´ Λίκο-
ϲ Γαΐω (ἐτῶν) δ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΡΙϹΤ
ΟΒΟΛΟϹϹΕ
ΡΑΠΙΩΝΟϹ
L ΠΜΕϹΟΡ
5ΗΚΕΛΙΚΟ
ϹΓΑΙΩ L .

Apparatus

4: π might be read as γι, and may be a year numeral rather than an age (so Reynolds in SEG).
5/6: Λίκο/ς Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983; Λύκο/ς cdl
6: ΓΑΙΑΝ LΔ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 10, Aristobolos, son of Serapion. Year 80, Mesore 25th, ? aged 4.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 10, Aristobulos des Serapion, (Jahr?) 80, 25.Mesore, Likos des Gaius, 4 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Aristobolos (scil. son) of Serapion, ?aged 80; Mesore 25, Lykos (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius), aged 4.

Commentary

Line 4: Aged 80; alternatively (ἔτους) γι, year 13, the beginning of the next entry.

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 43, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.912, PHI 324395; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 53.c, whence SEG 33.1503, PHI 324678.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.534 and T.533 (Reynolds XII.36)