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T.570. 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, broken above (w: 0.22 x h: 0.20) to the left of T.569.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma, omega; L for 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

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[c. 5]ϹΑ̣Ν
ΝΑΙϹ Ϲιλί-
ω (ἐτῶν) κδ´

Diplomatic

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[·····]Ϲ.Ν
ΝΑΙϹϹΙΛΙ
Ω L ΚΔ

Apparatus

2: Ναῖος Ἰαν Reynolds, 1957

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

. . . des Silius, 24 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] ? (scil. child) of Silios (i.e. Silius), (aged) 24.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1957 in SEG 16.879, PHI 324362; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 59.d, whence SEG 33.1520, PHI 324695
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.570, T.569 (Reynolds XII.68)