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T.573. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with inscriptions T.573, T.574, T.575, T.576, T.577, T.578, T.579.
Text: Inscribed in a rectangular panel (w: 0.29 x h: 0.33), above the door, approximately in the centre
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι´ Θώθυ α´
Ἰουλία Ῥ-
ούφου
(ἐτῶν) ιγ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΘΩΘΥΑ
ΙΟΥΛΙΑΡ
ΟΥΦΟΥ
L ΙΓ

Apparatus

1: At end, Δ for Α, Pacho, and Franz
2: Ν for Λι, Pacho and Franz
4: Oliverio read, as a fifth line, the opening of T.577.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 5 - Li -

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 10, 1 Thothy, Iulia des Rufus, 13 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Thoth 1, Ioulia (i.e. Julia) (scil. daughter) of Rouphos (i.e. Rufus), aged 13.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5321, p. 552; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 379 (253, La.XV.1.2), p.218, whence SEG 9.644; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 45.a.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. T.573 (Joyce Reynolds, NS.IX.10)

   Fig. 3. From left: T.575, T.574, part of T.573 (Joyce Reynolds, NS.IX.12)