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T.695. Funerary inscription

Description: Probably a rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: From Pacho's drawing. Perhaps seen side by side with T.694.
Letters: No measurements; standard forms.

Date: November, 69 CE

Findspot: Taucheira: One of the East Quarries; recorded by Pacho in 1825; not seen subsequently.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρ´ Ἁθὺ̣ρ̣ κ´
Ἀ̣λ̣[έ]ξαν̣δ[ρ-]
ο̣ς̣ Λ̣υσιμ-
[άχ]ου (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΡΑΘ..Κ
..[.]ΞΑ.Δ[.-]
...ΥΣΙΜ
[..]ΟΥ L Κ

Apparatus

1: ΡΑΘΟΥΚ Pacho, 1827; [L -] Ἁθ[ύρ] κ΄ CIG, Vol.III
2: ΛΑΛΞΑΖΥΔ Pacho, 1827
3: ΘΕΔΥΣΙΜ Pacho, 1827; [Α]ὐ[ξ]ίμ CIG, Vol.III
4: ΟΥΕΚ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 100, Hathyr 20, Alexandros (scil. son) of Lysimachos, aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5295.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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