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T.551. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts T.550, T.551, T.552, T.553, T.554, T.555, T.556, T.557. There is an illegible panel above the door and above that a niche.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.30) to the right of the door, below T.550.
Letters:

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ̣´ Τυβὶ ιδ´
Βάσος
Ἀρτεμᾶ
[(ἐτῶν)] μϛ´

Diplomatic

L .ΤΥΒΙΙΔ
ΒΑΣΟΣ
ΑΡΤΕΜΑ
[]ΜϚ

Apparatus

1: LΑ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 1, Tubi 14th, Basos son of Artemas, ?

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 4, 14.Tybi, Bassus des Artemas, 46 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 4, Tybi 14, Basos (i.e. Bassus) (scil. son) of Artemas, aged 46.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 9, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.888, PHI 324371; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.b, whence SEG 33.1509, PHI 324684.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds)