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T.534. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with T.530, T.531, T.532, T.533, T.534.
Text: Inscribed within a square panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.30) to the left of T.533.
Letters: 0.06.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South side. First recorded in 1952.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιδ´ Τίμ-
αρχος
Μαγ̣αυ̣-
ν̣ω̣ (ἐτῶν) δ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΔΤΙΜ
ΑΡΧΟΣ
ΜΑ.Α.
.. L Δ

Apparatus

1: ΙΔ : ΙΑ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG
3: ΜΑΤΑΝ Gray, 1956 ΜΑΓΑΥ: Reynolds in SEG 16.
4: ΙΑ LΔ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 11, Timarchos son of Mat(t)ania, aged 4.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 14, Timarchos des . . .? 4 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 14, Timarchos (scil. son) of Ma[ ?], aged 4.

Commentary

Lines 3 and 4 are very unclear. In 3 there may be nothing after ΜΑΓ, giving Μαγ/ν̣ω̣, from Magnos.

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 42, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.913, PHI 324396; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 53.d, whence SEG 33.1504, PHI 324679.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.534 and T.533 (Reynolds XII.36)