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T.555. 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, left of the niche over the door, above T.554.
Letters: 0.06; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; very roughly cut.

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) ε´ Φαρμουθὶ ει´
Λυϲανίαϲ
Πτυλμαίου ἐτῶν̣ [.]

Diplomatic

L ΕΦΑΡΜΟΥΘΙΕΙ
ΛΥϹΑΝΙΑϹ
ΠΤΥΛΜΑΙΟΥΕΤΩ.[·]

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 5, 15.Pharmuthi, Lysanias des Ptylmaios, . . . Jahre

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 5, Pharmouthi 15, Lysanias (scil. son) of Ptolemaios aged . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1957 in SEG 16.890, PHI 324373; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.f, whence SEG 33.1512, PHI 324687.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.557 above T.555 above T.554 above T.553; T.556 to the right of T.555 (Joyce Reynolds, XII.28)

   Fig. 2. Face; left of T.554 (Joyce Reynolds, XII.28, detail)