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T.344. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.343 and T.344.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.40) outlined in relief. To the right of the door.
Letters: 0.035; lunate sigma; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East VIII, West wall, to the left of the entrance. First recorded in 1936
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[(ἔτους) . Φ]α̣ω-
[φὶ .]
( vac. 1) Λυϲα-
νίαϲ Ὑρά-
5θιοϲ (ἐτῶν) ν´

Diplomatic

[·.].Ω
[..·]
  ΛΥϹΑ
ΝΙΑϹΥΡΑ
5ΘΙΟϹ L Ν

Apparatus

1: Omitted by Oliverio.
3: Λ]υσα Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 whence SEG

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Lisania di Irathis, di anni 50

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?, Phaophi ?, Lysanias (scil. son) of Hyratthis, aged 50.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 322 (197, La. VIII.2), whence SEG 9.588; cited, Applebaum, 1961, 51, whence Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 69
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IV.3.23, NS.V.23)