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T.596. 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: 0.20 x h: 0.25). Recorded by Oliverio immediately after T.595.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, north wall; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936)

Interpretive

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-ρ̣ης Ἀριστά-
ρχω (ἐτῶν) ξη´

Diplomatic

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.ΗΣΑΡΙΣΤΑ
ΡΧΩ L ΞΗ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- re di Aristarco, di anni 68.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . -]res (scil. son) of Aristarchos, aged 68.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 429 (303, La.XV.14,3), whence SEG 9.692.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).