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T.641. 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: 0.31 x h: 0.48) to the right of T.640.
Letters: 0.05; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: CE 73, March 3rd

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, East Wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ργ´ Φα-
μεν̣ὼ<θ> ζ´
Θαλλ[ο]ῦς
Ἀριστοκ-
5[ρ]άτους
(ἐτῶν) ϛ´

Diplomatic

L ΡΓΦΑ
ΜΕ.ΩΖ
ΘΑΛΛ[.]ΥΣ
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚ
5[.]ΑΤΟΥΣ
L Ϛ

Apparatus

1: ργ΄ : Β Pacho, 1827; βι΄ CIG, Vol.III
2: ΜΕΝΩΣ Pacho, 1827; μενὼ[θ] ε΄ CIG, Vol.III
3: ΟΑΛ ΕΙΣ Pacho, 1827; [θ]αλ[ασσ]ὶς CIG, Vol.III; Θάλ[λ]ος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: κ : χ Pacho, 1827
5: ΤΟΥΣ Pacho, 1827
6: LH Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 23, Phamenoth 7. Tallo di Aristocrate, di anni 6.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 103, 7 Phamenot, Thallus des Aristokrates, 6 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds, Char for Thallous child of Aristokrateslotte Roueché

Year 103, Phamenoth 7, Thallous (scil. daughter) of Aristokrates, aged 6.

Commentary

From the context, possibly Jewish

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXVI whence CIG, Vol.III, 5294, p. 549; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 442 (316, La.XV.17,4), p. 231, whence SEG 9.705; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 63.e whence SEG 33.1528, PHI 324703.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXVI)

   Fig. 2. T.638, T.639 T.639, T.640, T.641 and T.642 (Reynolds NS.IX.30)