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T.698. 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 right of T.697, to the left of T.699.
Letters: No measurements. Standard forms; L for ἔτους/ἐτῶν.

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) ι´ Χοιά-
χι ζ´ Ἰ̣ω-
σης Ἀμ̣-
φίωνος
5(ἐτῶν) θ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΧΟΙΑ
ΧΙΖ.Ω
ΣΗΣΑ.
ΦΙΩΝΟΣ
5 L Θ

Apparatus

2: ΧΙΖΠΩ Pacho, 1827; [κ] ιζ Πο CIG, Vol.III
3: Ἀν : Αι Pacho, 1827; Ἀ[ν] CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Choiak 7, Ioses (scil. son) of Anphion, aged 9.

Commentary

Line 2: the name indicates a Jew.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5250
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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