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T.608. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is badly damaged, with T.608, T.609, T.610 and T.611. there are several other panels wholly illegible.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk panel, of which the lower right corner survives (w: 0.25 x h: 0.26), above the door.
Letters: 0.025; ? lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - second century CE

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

Interpretive

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[Ἰ?]η̣ϲ̣ο̣υ̣[ς]
[Φιλί?]ππ-
[ου]
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) [.]

Diplomatic

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[.]....[.]
[....]ΠΠ
[..]
   L [·]

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

. . . ] Jesus son of ?Philippυs [ . . . ] aged ?

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Iesous (scil. son) of ?Philippos [ . . . ], aged ?

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 14.a, whence SEG 33.1404, PHI 324585
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, V.4.24, NS.VI.24)