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T.704. Funerary inscription

Description: Probably a rock-cut tomb façade.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel, with a traingular gable above.
Letters: 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: Undoubtedly in one of the East Quarries.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Με̣-
χὶρ δκ̣´
Φ[ί]λω-
ν Στ̣ρά-
5των-
ο̣ς (ἐτῶν) ν´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΜ.
ΧΙΡΔ.
Φ[.]ΛΩ
ΝΣ.ΡΑ
5ΤΩΝ
L Ν

Apparatus

1: LΓΑΜΙ Pacho, 1827
2: ΧΙΕΔΕ Pacho, 1827; χί[ρ] δ[ιʹ] CIG, Vol.III
3: ΦΛΩ Pacho, 1827
4: ΝΣΓΡΑ Pacho, 1827
6: ΣΣLΝ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Mecheir 24, Philon (scil. son) of Straton, aged 50.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5351.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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