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T.563. Funerary> inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts T.558, T.559, T.560, T.561, T.562, T.563, T.564, T.565, T.566.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel, to the left of T.559; the surface is very worn.
Letters: No description.

Date: November 4, CE 69

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρ̣´ Ἁθὺρ ι̣´
Νίκων
Νεικαίου
[ἐτῶν] ϛ´

Diplomatic

L .ΑΘΥΡ.
ΝΙΚΩΝ
ΝΕΙΚΑΙΟΥ
[....]Ϛ

Apparatus

1: ΑΘΥΡ Ι Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.
3: ΝΕΙϹΑΙΟΥ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.
4: LΠ Gray, 1956 L γ΄: Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Athur ? Nicon son of Nicaios, aged 80

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 100, 10.Hathyr, Nikon des Nikaios, 6 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 100, Hathyr 10, Nikon (scil. son) of Neikaios, aged 6.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 2, and, with readings by Reynolds, SEG 16.884, PHI 324367; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 58.e whence SEG 33.1517, PHI 324692
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.95.1)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XII.80)

   Fig. 3. Face