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T.546. 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 rectangular panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.44) above T.545 and to the left of T.543.
Letters: 0.04 - 0.05; square sigma.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) β´ Ἐπι-
φὶ γ´ Ἀρί-
μμαϲ
Ἀριϲτο-
5κράτους
(ἐτῶν) ο´

Diplomatic

L ΒΕΠΙ
ΦΙΓΑΡΙ
ΜΜΑϹ
ΑΡΙϹΤΟ
5ΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ
L Ο

Apparatus

5: LΘ Gray, 1956

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 2, Epiphi 3rd (possibly Epiph 13th), Arimmas, son of Aristocrates, aged 9.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 2, 3.Epiphi, Arimmas des Aristokrates, 70 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Epeiph 3, Arimmas (scil. son) of Aristokrates, aged 70.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 23, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.907, PHI 324390; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 54.e.
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. Above T.546, below, from left, T.545 and T.543 (Reynolds XII.22)

   Fig. 3. View of quarry wall, and the upper part of T.546 (Reynolds XII.31)