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T.618. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.618, T.619, T.620, T.621, T.622, T.623, T.624.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel outlined in relief, the surface badly damaged, above the door to the right. A similar panel to the left is quite illegible.
Letters: Lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [---]
[---]
Ἀ̣γ̣[ά?]θ̣ων
[Λ]υϲανί-
5( vac. 1)α̣
[(ἐτῶν)] κγ´

Diplomatic

L [---]
[---]
..[.].ΩΝ
[.]ΥϹΑΝΙ
5  .
[.]ΚΓ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year ?, . . . ?Agathon son of Lysanias aged 23.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year [ . . . ], ?Agathon (scil. son) of Lysanias aged 23.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 22.a, whence SEG 33.1441, PHI 324618
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.618, T.619, and T.620 below (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra V.2.11, NS.VI.11)

   Fig. 2. Illegible panel to the left of T.618 (Joyce Reynolds, NS.VI.12)