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T.594. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.594, T.595, T.596, T.597; T.598 was associated by Oliverio with the same tomb.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.19).
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, north wall. First recorded in 1936, and read by Oliverio, but now almost utterly destroyed.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) β´ Τυβὶ
ε´ Λούκι-
ος Λούκι-
ου (ἐτῶν) ξ´

Diplomatic

L ΒΤΥΒΙ
ΕΛΟΥΚΙ
ΟΣΛΟΥΚΙ
ΟΥ L Ξ

Apparatus

4: ου L ς΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 2, Tybi 5. Lucio di Lucio, di anni 6.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Tybi 5, Loukios (i.e. Lucius) (scil. son) of Loukios (i.e. Lucius), aged 60.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 427 (301, La.XV.14,1), whence SEG 9.690.
Text constituted from: Transcription and previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.594, T.595 below (Reynolds Tocra IX.2.29, NS.X.29)