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T.654. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.653 and T.654.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.44 x h: 0.21). To the right of T.653.
Letters: 0.05; L for ἔτους; 'S' shaped 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) ι´ Μεχεὶ̣ρ̣ ϛ´
Ἀ̣γ̣άθω̣[ν] Πι̣[.]
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Diplomatic

L ΙΜΕΧΕ..Ϛ
..ΑΘ.[.]Π.[·]
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Apparatus

1: ΗΜΕΧΕΙΦΟΝ Pacho, 1827; L η΄ Μεχεὶ[ρ . . . CIG, Vol.III
2: ΑΤΑΘ Pacho, 1827; Ἀ[γ]αθ[οκλῆς CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Mecheir 6, Agathon [ . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5244.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left: T.653 (part), T.654 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.15A, NS.VII.15)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.15A, NS.VII.15)