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T.564. 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, left of T.563.
Letters: No description

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Φαρμ-
ουθὶ κ̣´ Ἰου-
λία Νικα-
ίου (ἐτῶν) κ´
5Γ

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΦΑΡΜ
ΟΥΘΙ.ΙΟΥ
ΛΙΑΝΙΚΑ
ΙΟΥ L Κ
5Γ

Apparatus

1: ΟΥΘΙ Η ΙΟΥ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 11, (month) Pharmouthi 8th, Julia, daughter of Nicaios, aged 20.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 11, 20.Pharmuthi, Iulia des Nikaios, 20 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Pharmouthi 20, Ioulia (i.e. Julia) (scil. daughter) of Nikaios, aged 20 (or 23).

Commentary

The letter in line 5 may perhaps be part of the numeral - so 'aged 23'; but it is oddly positioned.

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 1, on which Reynolds, SEG 16.885, PHI 324368; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 58.f
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.98.2)