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T.549. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with texts T.547, T.548, T.549.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel, damaged at right side (w: 0.26 x h: 0.40) to the left of T.548.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

( vac. 1) (ἔτους) ε´
Φαμενὼ[θ]
( vac. 1) βκ´
Δαμίω̣ν̣
5Φιλοκρά-
τευς ( vac. 1)
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

   L Ε
ΦΑΜΕΝΩ[.]
  ΒΚ
ΔΑΜΙ..
5ΦΙΛΟΚΡΑ
ΤΕΥΣ  
   L Λ

Apparatus

1-2: Lines not distinguished by Gray, correctly by Reynolds in SEG
5-6: Lines not distinguished by Gray, correctly by Reynolds in SEG

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 5, Phameno(th . . .) 22nd, Damon, son of Philocrates, aged 30.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 5, 22.Phamenot, Damion des Philokrates, 30 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 5, Phamenoth 22, Damion (scil. son) of Philokrates, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 15, whence, with readings from J. Reynolds, SEG 16.896, PHI 324379; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 56.c.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.549, T.548 T.547 (Reynolds XII.37)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XIII.19)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Joyce Reynolds)


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