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T.689. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.30)
Letters: 0.045 - 0.05; lunate sigma; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.

Date: Probably first century CE

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

Interpretive

Λ(ουκίου) Ἰου-
λίου
[Μ]α̣ρ̣-
τιά-
5λουϲ

Diplomatic

ΛΙΟΥ
ΛΙΟΥ
[.]..
ΤΙΑ
5ΛΟΥϹ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Di L(ucio) Giulio Marziale.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(scil. Tomb) of L(oukios) Ioulios Martiales (i.e. L(ucius) Julius Martialis).

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 461 (331, La.XVII.6,1), whence SEG 9.724.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.1.17A, NS.VII.17)