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T.653. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.653 and T.654.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel outlined in relief (w: 0.33 x h: 0.53). To the right of the door, high up, to the left of T.654.
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; superscript bars above the figures in lines 1, 6; square sigma for digamma.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XVII, north wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Τυβὶ
ςκ´ Μητ-
ροφάνη-
ς Ἀγαθο-
5κλέος
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΤΥΒΙ
ΣΚΜΗΤ
ΡΟΦΑΝΗ
ΣΑΓΑΘΟ
5ΚΛΕΟΣ
   L Κ

Apparatus

2: ςκʹ : ΕΚ Pacho, 1827; εκʹ CIG, Vol.III

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 11, Tybi 26. Metrofane di Agatocle, di anni 20.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11,Tybi 26, Metrophanes (scil. son) of Agathokles, aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5325; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 447 (321, La.XVII.1), whence SEG 9.710.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.14A, NS.VII.14)

   Fig. 3. From left: T.653 (part), T.654 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.15A, NS.VII.15)