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 above the door on the right side and extending to the right of it
Letters: 0.08; square sigma, lunate epsilon, L for ἔτους, very rough.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XIV. First recorded in 1936; not reported subsequently.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1936)
Apparatus
1: η΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: τ(ὼ) Γαί(ω) Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: Εὐημερω Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 whence LGPN V1-60792
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 8. Mirtò di Gaio Euemero.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 2, Myrto des Diodotos, 60 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 2, Myrto (scil. daughter) of Diodotos, aged 60.
Commentary
Line 2: The I was taken by Oliverio to be Γ but is perhaps a sign that the illiterate cutter misunderstood ω in his draft.
Line 3: ἔζω ν΄ is also a possible reading, presumably for 'lived 50 years'; cf. on T.430.
On the names see Lüderitz, loc.cit..
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 368 (242, La.XIV.3,2), p. 215, pl. LXXX fig. 44 (242), whence SEG 9.634; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 44.b, whence SEG 33.1479, PHI 324653.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
Images
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