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T.603. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade to the left of the door, with T.600, T.601, T.602 and T.603; the inscribed surface is broken away to left, and more of it may be partly buried below.
Text: Inscribed in a sunk and smoothed area, undefined, broken away to the left. Below T.602.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, north side
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[--- Χ]οιάχι
[---]ι̣μ̣ητρω-
νος Φιλόξε-
( vac. 1)νος (ἐτῶν) ξ´

Diplomatic

[---.]ΟΙΑΧΙ
[---]..ΗΤΡΩ
ΝΟΣΦΙΛΟΞΕ
  ΝΟΣ L Ξ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[?Year ?], Choiak [? . . -]metronos Philoxenos, aged 60.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: T.602, T.600; below, the upper line of T.603, buried (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.3.8A, NS.VII.8)