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T.652. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with T.651 and T.652.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.31 x h: 0.45) outlined in relief, broken away at the right side, to the right of T.651; each entry in a different hand. To the right of this panel there is another, quite illegible.
Letters: 0.035; lunate sigma.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιβ´ Τυβ̣ὶ̣ κ̣´
Εἰρήν[α Ἰοϲ-]
ήπ[ου ---]
( vac. 1 line)
(ἔτους) ιβ̣´ [---]
5ΚΕΥ [---]
ϹΩΘ [---]
(ἐτῶν) ο̣´

Diplomatic

L ΙΒΤΥ...
ΕΙΡΗΝ[....-]
ΗΠ[..---]
     vacat
L Ι.[---]
5ΚΕΥ[---]
ϹΩΘ[---]
L .

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 12, Tybi 20, Eirena (scil. daughter) of Iosepos...

Year 12, [ . . . ], aged 70.

Commentary

Line 3: the name indicates a Jew.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From the left: T.651, T.652 (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX 1.36, NS.X.36)

   Fig. 2. Detail (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX 1.36 NS.X.36)