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T.620. 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 (w: 0.28 x h: 0.23) originally outlined in relief, below T.619, into whose area the gable impinges.
Letters:

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιε´ Θώθυ
κβ´ Πελήα
Κρίτωνος
(ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΕΘΩΘΥ
ΚΒΠΕΛΗΑ
ΚΡΙΤΩΝΟΣ
L Κ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 15, Thothy 22. Pelea di Criton, di anni 20

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 15, 22.Thothy, Pelea des Kriton, 20 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 15, Thoth 22, Pelea (scil. daughter) of Simon, aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 433 (307, La.XV.15,2), and pl. LXXXII, fig. 47, whence SEG 9.696; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 61.b.
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. From left: T.619, T.621, T.622; T.620 below left (Department of Antiquities, F. 1065)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Department of Antiquities, F. 1065)

   Fig. 4. Face (Joyce Reynolds, V.2.10, NS.VI.10)

   Fig. 5. From left: T.619, T.621, T.622; T.620 below left (Joyce Reynolds, V.2.8, NS.VI.8)