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T.648. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the face, which is much damaged, with T.647, T.648, T.649
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.50) to the right of T.647, to the left of T.649.
Letters: 0.035.

Date: November 8, 17 BCE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δι´ Ἁθὺρ
βι´ Πρῖμος
Κασσί-
ου (ἐτῶν) λ̣γ´

Diplomatic

L ΔΙΑΘΥΡ
ΒΙΠΡΙΜΟΣ
ΚΑΣΣΙ
ΟΥ L .Γ

Apparatus

1: Θ : Ο Pacho, 1827
3: ΚΑΣΣΙ Pacho, 1827; Βάσσ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: ΟΥLΑΓ Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 14, Hathyr 12. Primo di Basso, di anni 33.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 14, Hathyr 12, Primos (i.e. Primus) (scil. son) of Kassios (i.e. Cassius), aged 20.

Commentary

Line 2: The lettering is like that of T.647, so presumably the year is 14 of the Actian era.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5334; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 445 (319, La.XV.19), p. 232, whence SEG 9.708.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left: T.647, T.648 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII 2.27, NS.IX.27)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII 2.27, NS.IX.27)

   Fig. 4. From left: T.647, T.648 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII 2.29, NS.IX.29)


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