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T.453. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.451, T.452, T.453, T.454, T.455, T.456, T.457, T.458, and T.459; the surface is badly worn so that a number of panels are illegible.
Text: Inscribed in a rectangular panel (w: 0.245 x h: 0.33) outlined in relief below T.452.
Letters: 0.04; square sigma, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [.] Με[χ-]
ὶ[ρ---]
Νείκαις
Ἀνδ̣[ροσ-]
5θένευς
(ἐτῶν) ιε´

Diplomatic

L [·]ΜΕ[.-]
Ι[.---]
ΝΕΙΚΑΙΣ
ΑΝ.[...-]
5ΘΕΝΕΥΣ
L ΙΕ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year ?, Mecheir ?, Neikais daughter of Androsthenes, aged 15.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year ?, Mecheir ?, Neikai(o)s (scil. son) of Androsthenes, aged 15.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 16.c, whence SEG 33.1414, PHI 324595.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.452; below, from left T.455, T.453, T.451 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VIII.4.17)