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T.501. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with T.495, T.496, T.497, T.498, T.499, T.500, T.501, T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.508, T.509, T.510, T.511, T.512, T.513, T.514, T.515; there are also a number of illegible panels.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.31 x h: 0.40) to the right of T.500.
Letters: 0.05; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

( vac. 1) (ἔτουϲ) γ´
Ἁθὺρ βι´
Εἰηϲο[ῦϲ]
Ἀπολλ-
5οδώρω
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) η´ ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

   L Γ
ΑΘΥΡΒΙ
ΕΙΗϹΟ[..]
ΑΠΟΛΛ
5ΟΔΩΡΩ
   L Η  

Apparatus

1: Omitted by Gray
2: βι : ΕΙ Pacho, 1827; ε΄ CIG, Vol.III Omitted by Oliverio, Gray
3: ΕΙΗϹΟ Pacho, 1827; Ἰησο[ὺτ] CIG, Vol.III; ε΄ Ἰησο(ῦ)ς Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; Ε ΙΗΣΟΥ Gray, 1956
4: ΑΠΟΛ Pacho, 1827; ΑΠΟΛΙΝΟ Gray, 1956 ; ΟΛΙΠΡω Pacho, 1827; ΔωΡω Gray, 1956

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 3, Hathyr 5. Gesù di Apollodoro, di anni 8.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 1, Tub(i), Jesus, son of Apolinodoros, aged 8.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 3, 12.Hathyr, Jesus des Apollodoros, 8 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Hathyr 12, Eiesous (scil. son) of Apollodoros, aged 8.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5289; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 420 (294, La.XV.11.14), p. 227, whence SEG 9.683; Gray, 1956, 28, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, listed SEG 16.928; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 52.d, whence SEG 33.1497, PHI 324672
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXIII)

   Fig. 2. View of the façade. From left: First group: T.489, T.490, T.491, T.492, ?T.493, ? T.494; Second group: T.499 above T.498 above T.495 and T.496, T.500 above T.497, T.501 above T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.509 above T.510 above T.511, T.515 aboveT.514 above T.513 above T.512. (Reynolds XII.9)

   Fig. 3. Façade: At left T.501 above T.502 ; to the right T.515 above T.514 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra IX.1.35)