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T.417. 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 sunk gabled panel (w: 0.33 x h: 0.60), above T.416 and to the right of T.415.
Letters: 0.045; lunate epsilon, and lunate sigma; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Ἁθὺρ
κε´ [Ἀ]ρϲι-
νόα Μ-
άρκω ἔζη-
5ϲεν ἔτη
κ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΑΘΥΡ
ΚΕ[.]ΡϹΙ
ΝΟΑΜ
ΑΡΚΩΕΖΗ
5ϹΕΝΕΤΗ
Κ

Apparatus

1: [Ἁ]θὺρ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
2: [Ὁμ]ό Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: νο[ί]α Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: ου for ω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 11, Hathyr 25. Omonoia di Marco visse anni 20.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 11, 25.Hathyr, Arsinoa des Marcus, lebte 20 Jahre

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Hathyr 25, Arsinoa (scil. daughter) of Markos (i.e. Marcus), lived 20 years.

Commentary

This family is taken to be Jewish, on the basis of the names in T.413.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 357 (231, La.XII.4,5), p. 213, pl. LXXVIII, fig. 40, whence SEG 9.623; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 67.f, whence SEG 33.1532, PHI 324707.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. At left: T.415, above T.414, above T.413; centre, T.417 above T.416. (Reynolds, NS.X.13)