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T.587. 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: On the west face of the wall projecting to the right of the door. Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.16) to the left of T.588, outlined by an incised line, part of the left side broken away.
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, north wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ζ´ Ἁθὺρ
ι´ λύπα-
τος Βαχ-
ίδ̣ος (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΖΑΘΥΡ
ΙΑΛΥΠΑ
ΤΟΣΒΑΧ
Ι.ΟΣ L Κ

Apparatus

2: initial ΙΑ seen by Pacho only.
3: ΤΟΣ-ΛΑΧ Pacho, 1827
4: initial Ι seen by Pacho only.; L : Ι Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 7, Hathyr -. Alipato di Bachis, di anni 20.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 7, Hathyr 10, Alypatos (scil. son) of Bachis, aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5271; corrections, Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 198; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 390 (264, La.XV.4,3), whence SEG 9.654.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXII)

   Fig. 2. From left: T.587, T.589, T.590 (Joyce Reynolds, VI.1.19A, NS.VII.19)

   Fig. 3. From left: T.588 above; below, T.587, T.589, T.590; below, T.591, T.592(Joyce Reynolds, Tocra V.3.15, NS VI.15: from negative)