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T.632. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is partly damaged, a number of texts being quite illegible, with T.629, T.630, T.631, T.632, T.633, T.634, T.635, T.636, T.637, T.638, T.639, T.640, T.641, T.642.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.19) to the left of T.631.
Letters: 0.03; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ε´ Μεχὶ[ρ]
ηι´ Ζεῦξις
Ἀμύντα
(ἐτῶν) μ´

Diplomatic

L ΕΜΕΧΙ[.]
ΗΙΖΕΥΞΙΣ
ΑΜΥΝΤΑ
L Μ

Apparatus

1: L΄ Μεχὶρ Wright, 1963
2: η Ζεῦξι[ς]? Wright, 1963

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 5, 18.Mechir, Zeuxis des Amyntas, 40 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 5, Mecheir 18, Zeuxis (scil. son) of Amyntas, aged 40.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Wright, 1963 36, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.593, SEG 20.769, PHI 324520; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 63.d whence SEG 33.1527, PHI 324702.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. In the foreground, T.625, and an unidentified text; in the background T.630 T.631, T.632, T.633, T.634, T.636, T.637 and T.638 behind (Reynolds NS.I.3)

   Fig. 2. From left: T.632, T.631 (Reynolds Tocra IX.2.33, NS.X.33)