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T.542. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is still partly buried, with T.542, T.543, T.544, T.545, T.546.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.35) outlined in relief, above the door.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Τυβὶ
δι´ Δωϲᾶϲ
Ἀριϲτοκρά-
το̣υϲ (ἐτῶν) λε´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΤΥΒΙ
ΔΙΔΩϹΑϹ
ΑΡΙϹΤΟΚΡΑ
Τ.ΥϹ L ΛΕ

Apparatus

3-4: ΑΡΙϹΤΟΚΡΑ/ΤΕΥϹ Gray, 1956; Ἀριστοκράτους Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 11, Tubi . . . th, Didosas, son of Aristocrates, aged 35.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 11, 14.Tubi, Dosas des Aristokrates, 35 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Tybi 14, Dosas (scil. son) of Aristokrates, aged 35.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 20, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.904, PHI 324387; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 54.a, whence SEG 33.1505, PHI 324680.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.542 above T.543 aboveT.544; to the left, T.546 (Reynolds XII.13)