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T.544. 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 outlined in relief (w: 0.33 x h: 0.35) still partly buried, to the left of the door, below T.543.
Letters: 0.03; 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) ζ´ Φαωφὶ ϛι̣´
Ἀριϲτοκράτηϲ
Ἀρίμμα (ἐτῶν) ξγ´

Diplomatic

L ΖΦΑΩΦΙϚ.
ΑΡΙϹΤΟΚΡΑΤΗϹ
ΑΡΙΜΜΑ L ΞΓ

Apparatus

1: at end: ϹΙ Gray, 1956 Gray reported that Bell and Tod read Α; this reading Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 7, Phaophi ?th, Aristocrates, son of Arimmas, aged 63.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 7, 16.Phaophi, Aristokrates des Arimmas, 63 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 7, Phaophi 16, Aristokrates (scil. son) of Arimmas, aged 63.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 22, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.906, PHI 324389; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 54.c.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XIII.15)