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T.326. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.324, T.325, T.326 and T.327.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.45 x h: 0.80). There is a Ζ incised in the gable, perhaps for ζῶν or ζῆ. To the left of T.325.
Letters: 0.05; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century A.D

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East V, East wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτουϲ) ϛ´ Παχ-
ὼν η´ Γ̣ρ-
άνιοϲ
Ἀντων̣-
5ίου (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

L ϚΠΑΧ
ΩΝΗ.Ρ
ΑΝΙΟϹ
ΑΝΤΩ.
5ΙΟΥ L Λ

Apparatus

1: ς : ε Pacho, 1827 so CIG, Oliverio
4: ΑΝΤΩΥ Pacho, 1827
5: ΤΟΥLA Pacho, 1827; ίου L α΄ CIG, Vol.III; ίου . . Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 5, Pachon 8. Granio di Antonio

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 6, Pachon 8, Granios (i.e. Granius) (scil. son) of Antonios (i.e. Antonius), aged 30

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5273; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 311 (186, La. V.4.1) , whence SEG 9.578. Image, from left T.326, T.325 available at BSR: wplib-09925; Image: Above, T.324; to the left of the door, from left T.326, T.325 available at BSR: wplib-09925
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VII.5.12A, NS.VIII.12)

   Fig. 3. View of tomb: below, T.325 and T.326 (Ward-Perkins, g26-086)