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T.696. Funerary inscription

Description: Presumably a rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, probably with T.696, T.697, T.698, T.699 and T.700.
Text: Apparently inscribed to the left of T.697
Letters: No measurements. Standard forms; L, with a dot, for ἔτους

Date: Probably first century 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) ε´ Χοιάχι
[.]α´ Ματ[ί]η-
νος Θύω-
νος (ἐτῶν) νζ´

Diplomatic

L ΕΧΟΙΑΧΙ
[·]ΑΜΑΤ[.]Η
ΝΟΣΘΥΩ
ΝΟΣ L ΝΖ

Apparatus

1: LϲΕ Pacho, 1827; L ιε΄ CIG, Vol.III ; ΝΝΖ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 5, Choiak 11 (or 21), Matienos (i.e. Matienus) (scil. son) of Thuon, aged 57.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5250; cited Applebaum, 1961, 51, whence mentioned Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 69.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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