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T.665. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.662, T.663, T.664, T.665, T.666, T.667, T.668.
Text: Inscribed within an irregularly shaped panel, perhaps once gabled, the surface lost to the left and possibly broken away to the right (w: 0.29 x h: 0.38). To the right of T.664.
Letters: 0.035; lunate epsilon, probably L for ἔτους; .

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

[...] (ἔτους) ( vac. 3) γ´ [---]
[Φα]ρ̣μου[θὶ]
[..]Η̣Τ Β̣ιθυ̣[ς]
[.. ? ..]Η̣Υ̣Κ̣ΕΥΠ
5 ------

Diplomatic

[···].      Γ[---]
[..].ΜΟΥ[..]
[··].Τ.ΙΘ.[.]
[.. ? ..]...ΕΥΠ
5------

Apparatus

1: omitted by Pacho
2: ΝΗ Pacho, 1827
3: ΗΤΚΙΕ Pacho, 1827; . .]Η̣Τ[.]ΙΘ̣Ι̣ Reynolds, 1983
4: ΝΚΕΥΠ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 3, Pharmouthi 7, ...

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Pharmouthi 7, ... Bithys . . .

Commentary

Line 3: the name, omitted in her 1983 publication, was restored by JMR in LGPN

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5359c; Reynolds, 1983, 24.d, whence SEG 33.1454, PHI 324628.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra VI.4.5A, NS.VII.5)