Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...] pl. LXXXIII, whence [...], 5344; [...], 407 (281, La.XV.11.3), p. 224, whence [...] 9.670; [...], 30 repeated 35, whence listed, with readings by J. Reynolds, [...] 16.914, [...] 324397, [...] 16.922, [...] 324405; [...] 50.j, 50.g, whence [...] 33.1491, [...] 324666.

ἔτους κα Μεσορὴ κδ Σωγένης Δωσιθέου ἐτῶν ξδ

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: ΑΜΕΣΟΡΙΗΑ | L] αʹ Μεσoρ[ὴ ι]αʹ | L κα΄ Μεσορὴ | [ . . . ]ΦΑΜΕΝΟΣ | ΜΕΣΟΡΙ [κα΄ Μεσορὶ γʹ Reynolds in SEG 16.]]

Translations

Anno 21, Mesore. Sogene di Dositeo, di anni 45.

[30] Phamenoth 24th, (S)ogenes, son of Dositheos, aged 64.

[35]. . .. , Mesori . . . , Sogenes, son of Dositheos, aged 64.

[50.j] (Jahr) . . , 24.Phamenot, etc. [(Jahre)]

[50.g](Jahr) 21, 24.Mesore, Sogenes des Dositheos, 64 (Jahre).

Year 21, Mesore 24, Sogenes son of Dositheos, aged 64.

Commentary

The identity of the two texts reported by Gray appears virtually certain

Probably a Jewish family