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T.536. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with T.535, T.536, T.537, T.538, T.539, T.540, T.541.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.32), above the door to the left of T.535.
Letters: 0.03.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South side. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´
Ἁθὺρ ιζ´
Μάρθα
Ἰοάνους
5(ἐτῶν) πε´

Diplomatic

L Γ
ΑΘΥΡΙΖ
ΜΑΡΘΑ
ΙΟΑΝΟΥΣ
5 L ΠΕ

Apparatus

4: ΙΟΑΝΝΟΥΣ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 3, Athur 17th, Martha, daughter of Iohannes, aged 8.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 3, 17.Hathyr, Martha des Johanes, 85 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Hathyr 17, Martha (scil. daughter) of Ioanes, aged 85.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 32; Gray, 1956, 16, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.900, PHI 324383; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 55.d.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. At left of door: T.539 above T.538 above T.537. Above the door, from left, T.536, T.535. To the right of the door, just visible, T.540 and T.541 (Reynolds XII.3)