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T.586. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade and on a west facing projection from it, with T.586, T.587, T.588, T.589, T.590, T.591, T.592, T.593.
Text: Inscribed within two gabled panels above the door which is in the north wall, one quite illegible, the second (w: 0.23 x h: 0.32) outlined in relief, surface much damaged.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[(ἔτους) . Ἐ]παγ[ομ-]
[έ]ν̣ων [.]
[..]ΟΥ[.]
[---]
5[..]ώρω
(ἐτῶν) λ̣´

Diplomatic

[·.]ΠΑΓ[..-]
[.].ΩΝ[·]
[··]ΟΥ[·]
[---]
5[··]ΩΡΩ
L .

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?, Intercalary day ?, [ . . . (scil. child) of -]oros, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, VI.2.20A, NS.VII.20)