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T.672. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.671, T.672, T.673, T.674, T.675 and T.676.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel, outlined in relief (w: 0.45 x h: 0.75). Above the door, to the right of T.671.
Letters: 0.04; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XVII, on the south face of the spur of rock which separates the main quarry from the annexe. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτουϲ) β´ Μεϲορὴ
κζ´ Πολλία
Φιλοῦϲ (ἐτῶν) ιε´

Diplomatic

L ΒΜΕϹΟΡΗ
ΚΖΠΟΛΛΙΑ
ΦΙΛΟΥϹ L ΙΕ

Apparatus

3: Λ : Δ Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 2, Mesore 27. Pollia Philùs, di anni 15.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 2, Mesore 27, Pollia Philous, aged 15.

Commentary

The lack of patronymic suggests that this woman is a freed slave.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5336; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 456 (327, La.XVII.4,1), pl. LXXXIII, fig. 49, whence SEG 9.719.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. From left: T.673 (part), T.671, T.672(Joyce Reynolds, NS.IV.35)