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T.428. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with T.428, T.429, T.430, T.431, T.432, T.433, T.434, T.435, T.436, T.437, T.438.
Text: Inscribed in a sunk gabled panel, above the door, to the left (w: 0.30 x h: 0.36).
Letters: 0.05; square sigma, lunate epsilon, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XIV. First recorded in 1936; not reported subsequently.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ζ´ [Ἐ]πικλ-
ῆϲ Φίλωνο-
ϲ
(ἐτῶν) ν´ Πα-
5οῖνι δ´

Diplomatic

L Ζ[.]ΠΙΚΛ
ΗϹΦΙΛΩΝΟ
Ϲ
L ΝΠΑ
5ΟΙΝΙΔ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 7. Epicle di Filone. Anno 50. Paioni 4.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 7, Epikles des Philon, 50 (Jahre), 4.Paoini

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 7, Epikles (scil. son) of Philon, aged 50, Payni 4

Commentary

Line 1: Year 7; T.433, T.434, T.435 and T.436 are dated by the Actian era, from A.D 69/70 onwards and although they are patently cut in a uniform style, different from that of T.429, T.430, T.431, T.432 and T.437, the names show that one family was involved throughout and that a long time lag between them is unlikely..

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 367 (241, La.XIV.3,1), p. 215, pl. LXXX, fig. 44, whence SEG 9.633; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 44.a, whence SEG 33.1369.
Text constituted from: Read from the photograph. (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).