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T.624. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.618, T.619, T.620, T.621, T.622, T.623, T.624.
Text: Inscribed perhaps to the left of T.619, on two panels.
Letters: No measurements; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ̣´ Με-
χ̣ὶρ̣ κ̣γ´
Κρά̣τ̣ε[ι-]
α Θευχρ-
5[ήστου]
[(ἐτῶν)] η´. Μεχὶρ
λ´ Γάϊ-
[ος]
[Γα]ΐου
10(ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L .ΜΕ
.Ι..Γ
ΚΡ..Ε[.-]
ΑΘΕΥΧΡ
5[.....]
[.]ΗΜΕΧΙΡ
ΛΓΑΙ
[..]
[..]ΙΟΥ
10 L Κ

Apparatus

1: LΟΜΕ Pacho, 1827
2: ΛΙΠΗΓ Pacho, 1827
3: ΚΡΝΠΕ Pacho, 1827
4: ΟϹΥΝ Pacho, 1827
5: ΑΟΕΥΧΡ Pacho, 1827
3-5: Εὐφρ]οσύνα CIG, Vol.III
6: ΗΜΕΧΙΓ Pacho, 1827
7: ΛΓΑΙΤ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 9, Mechir 23, Crateia daughter of Theuchrestos, aged 8; Mechir 30, Gaius son of Gaius, aged 20.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 9, Mecheir 23, Krateia (scil. daughter) of Theuchr[estos], aged 8; Mecheir 30, Gaios (i.e. Gaius) (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius), aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXVI whence CIG, Vol.III, 5360b, Reynolds, 1983, 22.g whence SEG 33.1443, PHI 324620.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (by Reynolds).

Images

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