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T.685. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w: 0.23 x h: 0.28). To the right of the door, high up.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XVII, West wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Εὐπροϲύ-
να ἐτῶ-
ν δ´ [μην-]
ῶν ( vac. 1) δ̣´

Diplomatic

ΕΥΠΡΟϹΥ
ΝΑΕΤΩ
ΝΔ[...-]
ΩΝ  .

4: The cutter seems to have avoided a hole in the surface.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Euprosyna, aged 4 years 4 months.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.3.12A, NS.VII.12)