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T.413. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.410, T.411, T.412, T.413, T.414, T.415, T.416, T.417, T.418.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel outlined in relief (w: 0.34 x h: 0.75), to the right of the door, below T.414.
Letters: 0.035; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XII, South wall. Recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) α̣´ Ἰρ̣ή̣να Σί-
μωνος (ἐτῶν) λ´ .
(ἔτους) α´ Θώθυ α´
Μουσαῖος
5Εὐφροσύνου
(ἐτῶν) λ´ (ἔτους) ϛ´ Ἁθὺρ
γι´ Σίμων Μ-
ουσαίου (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L .Ι..ΝΑΣΙ
ΜΩΝΟΣ L Λ
L ΑΘΩΘΥΑ
ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΣ
5ΕΥΦΡΟΣΥΝΟΥ
L Λ L ϚΑΘΥΡ
ΓΙΣΙΜΩΝΜ
ΟΥΣΑΙΟΥ L Κ

Apparatus

1: The numeral, Α, omitted by Oliverio and Lüderitz

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno -, Irene di Simone, di anni 30.

Anno 1,Thothy 1. Museo di Eufrosino, di anni 30.

Anno 6, Hathyr 22. Simone di Museo, di anni 20.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) ?, Irena des Simon, 30 (Jahre)

(Jahr) 1, 1.Thothy, Musaios des Euphrosynos, 30 (Jahre)

(Jahr) 6, 13.Hathyr, Simon des Musaios, 20 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?1, Irena (scil. daughter) of Simon, aged 30.

Year 1, Thoth 1, Mousaios (scil. son) of Euphrosynos, aged 30.

Year 6, Hathyr 13, Simon (scil. son) of Mousaios, aged 20.

Commentary

This family is taken to be Jewish, on the basis of the names in lines 1 and 7.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 356 (230, La.XII.4,4), p. 213, pl. LXXVIII, fig. 40 (230), whence SEG 9.622 Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 67.b
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, NS.X.15)

   Fig. 2. At left: T.415, above T.414, above T.413; centre, T.417 above T.416. (Reynolds, NS.X.13)

   Fig. 3. T.410 centre, T.411 above, T.412 further above, T.413 (part) below right (Reynolds, NS.X.14)