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T.598. 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: 0.35 x h: 0.48).
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, 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

(ἔτους) η´
Μεσορὴ [---]
Πετρώνιος
Φαῦστος
5(ἐτῶν) μδ´

Diplomatic

L Η
ΜΕΣΟΡΗ[---]
ΠΕΤΡΩΝΙΟΣ
ΦΑΥΣΤΟΣ
5 L ΜΔ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 9, Mesore -. Petronio Fausto, di anni 44.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 8, Mesore [?, . . . ] Petronios Phaustos (i.e. Petronius Faustus), aged 44.

Commentary

Line 2: Mesore (July/August); it seems probable that an abbreviated praenomen is lost as well as the figure.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 431 (305, La.XV.14,5), whence SEG 9.694.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).