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T.557. 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 gabled panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.40) outlined in relief, above T.555.
Letters: 0.035 - 0.04; cursive omega.

Date: December 25, CE 73

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δρ´ Τυβὶ α̣´
Θευδώρα
Γεμέλω
(ἐτῶν) ν´

Diplomatic

L ΔΡΤΥΒΙ.
ΘΕΥΔΩΡΑ
ΓΕΜΕΛΩ
L Ν

Apparatus

1: LΔ ΤΥΒΒΙ ΙΔ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 4, Tubbi 30th, Theodora, daughter of Gemelos, aged 50.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 104, 1.Tybi, Theudora des Gemellus, 50 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 104, Tybi 1, Theudora (scil. daughter) of Gemelos (i.e. Gemellus), aged 50.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 35, pp.46-47; Gray, 1956, 12, whence, with readings from J. Reynolds, SEG 16.889, PHI 324372; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.h, whence SEG 33.1514, PHI 324689.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.557 above T.555 above T.554 above T.553 (Joyce Reynolds, XII.28)

   Fig. 2. Face; above T.555 (Joyce Reynolds, XII.28, detail)