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T.568. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is partly buried, with T.567, T.568, T.569, T.570; cf also T.571.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.31 x h: 0.22), the surface in poor condition, to the left of the door.
Letters: 0.03; square sigma ; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, West wall. RAF Tomb C. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ´ Μεϲορὴ
δι´ Ἀρ[ϲ]ινόα
Π̣α̣υ̣[ϲ]α̣νί-
α (ἐτῶν) μ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΔΜΕϹΟΡΗ
ΔΙΑΡ[.]ΙΝΟΑ
...[.].ΝΙ
Α L .

Apparatus

2: Ἀρ[ϲι]νόα Reynolds, 1957
3: Γ...ΟΝΙ Reynolds, 1957

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 4, 14.Mesore, Arsinoa des Pausanias, 40 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 4, Mesore 14, Arsinoa (scil. daughter) of Pausanias, aged 40.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1957 in SEG 16.877, PHI 324360; revised readings Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 59.b, whence SEG 33.1518, PHI 324693
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.46)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XII.57)