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T.649. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the face, which is much damaged, with T.647, T.648, T.649
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel drawn by Pacho immediately to the right of T.648, where the rock face is now broken away.
Letters:

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, East Wall. First recorded in 1825; not seen again.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Θώθυ
ηι´ Τά̣κι[τ-]
ος Κα̣[σ]σ[ί-]
ου̣ (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΓΘΩΘΥ
ΗΙΤ.ΚΙ[.-]
ΟΣΚ.[.]Σ[.-]
Ο. L Κ

Apparatus

1: Θώθυ : ΟΩΟΥ Pacho, 1827 4: ΟιιιΚ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Thoth 18, Takitos (i.e. Tacitus) (scil. son) of Kassios (i.e. Cassius), aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5334.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

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