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T.539. 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 gabled panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.37) outlined in relief, above T.538.
Letters: 0.03 - 0.04.

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´
Μεσορὴ
ι´ Φιλοξή-
ν̣α̣ Ἰ̣ο̣ά̣ν-
5ουϲ (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

L Γ
ΜΕΣΟΡΗ
ΙΦΙΛΟΞΗ
.....Ν
5ΟΥϹ L Λ

Apparatus

3: ΤΑ ΜΙΝ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG
4: LΔ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 3, Mesore 10th, Philoxeta, daughter of . . . mines, aged 4.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 3, 10.Mesore, Philoxena des Johanes, 30 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Mesore 10, Philoxena (scil. daughter) of Ioanes, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 31; Gray, 1956, 17, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.902, PHI 324385; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 55.g.
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)