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T.659. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb still partly buried, inscribed on the façade with T.655, T.656, T.657, T.658, T.659, T.660, T.661.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.38 x h: 0.75). To the right of T.657 after a space. Part of the relief has perhaps been cut away for T.658.
Letters: 0.045; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XVII, East wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ε̣´ Ἐπιφὶ
ηι´ Μ[ά]ξ̣ι-
μος Ἀ̣ρισ-
τομέ-
5νευς (ἐτῶν) ιβ´
(ἔτους) ϛ´ Ἄ̣λ̣β̣ου
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Diplomatic

L .ΕΠΙΦΙ
ΗΙΜ[.].Ι
ΜΟΣ.ΡΙΣ
ΤΟΜΕ
5ΝΕΥΣ L ΙΒ
L Ϛ...ΟΥ
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Apparatus

2: ιη΄ Μ[έ]δι- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
6: - - νου - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 5, Epiphi 18, Medimo di Aristomene, di anni 12. Di - no -.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 5, Epeiph 18, Maximos (i.e. Maximus) (scil. son) of Aristomenes, aged 12. Year 6, of Albos (?) . . .

Commentary

Line 6: the name is unclear - perhaps Λάβου

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 455 (326,3, La.XVII.3,7), pl. LXXXII fig.48, whence SEG 9.718.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Above, from left, T.655, T.656, T.658; below, from left, T.657, T.659; below, T.660, upper part (Department of Antiquities, F.1064)