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T.545. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is still partly buried, with T.542, T.543, T.544, T.545, T.546.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.34 x h: 0.38) outlined in relief, to the left of T.544.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.03

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South side. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) η´ Ἁθὺρ ζ´ Του-
βίας Ἀριστο-
κράτους (ἐτῶν) κ´
(ἔτους) η´ Θώθυ ηκ´
5Ἀριστοκράτη-
ς Ἀριστοκρ-
άτο̣υ̣ς (ἐτῶν) δ´

Diplomatic

L ΗΑΘΥΡΖΤΟΥ
ΒΙΑΣΑΡΙΣΤΟ
ΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ L Κ
L ΗΘΩΘΥΗΚ
5ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΡΑΤΗ
ΣΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΡ
ΑΤ..Σ L Δ

Apparatus

4: Gray only reported Η, but translates ΗΚ.
5: Gray did not report this line, or the initial letter of line 6, but translates it.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 8, Athur 7th, Toubias, son of Aristocrates, aged 20. Year 8, Thoth 28th, Aristocrates, son of Aristocrates, aged 4.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 8, 7.Hathyr, Tubias des Aristokrates, 20 (Jahre). (Jahr) 8, 28 Thothy, Aristokrates des Aristokrates, 4 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 8, Hathyr 7, Toubias (scil. son) of Aristokrates, aged 20. Year 8, Thoth 28, Aristokrates (scil. son) of Aristokrates, aged 4.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 38; Gray, 1956, 24, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.908, PHI 324391; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 54.d.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Above T.546, below, from left, T.545 and T.543 (Reynolds XII.22)

   Fig. 2. Face T.545, with T.546 above (Reynolds XII.45)