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T.691. Funerary inscription

Description: Probably a rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: From Pacho's drawing, perhaps seen side by side with T.690.
Letters: No measurements. Standard forms. Line 5, not reported by CIG, appears to be in a different, smaller, hand.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: One of the East Quarries; recorded by Pacho in 1825; not seen subsequently.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιζ´ Φαμεν-
[ὼ]τ ζ̣´ Ἀνφίων
Ἀνφίωνος
(ἐτῶν) ν´
5ΣΕΝ

Diplomatic

L ΙΖΦΑΜΕΝ
[.]Τ.ΑΝΦΙΩΝ
ΑΝΦΙΩΝΟΣ
L Ν
5ΣΕΝ

Apparatus

1: ΖΙΖΦΑΜΕΝ Pacho, 1827; [L] ιζ΄ Φαμεν[ὼθ] CIG, Vol.III
2: τ ζ΄ : ΤΣ Pacho, 1827; ιε΄ CIG, Vol.III
5: These letters, omitted in CIG, seem smaller and slimmer; they may be from some other text.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 17, Phamenoth 7, Anphion (scil. son) of Anphion, aged 50.

Commentary

Lines 1-2: Year 17, implying the reign of Augustus or Tiberius in the first century, or of Trajan, Hadrian, Pius or Marcus in the second century.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5251
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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