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T.702. Funerary inscription

Description: Probably a rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel.
Letters: Standard forms; no measurements

(; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν)

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Date: 57 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) . Φ]α[μ]εν̣ὼ̣θ η´
[---]ξεας
[.. ? ..]
Σωσικρ̣άτου
5[(ἐτῶν) .]
(ἔτους) πζ´ Μ̣[ε]σορὴ
κβ´ [.. ? ..]ΙΑΟΗ
ΑΝ[.. ? ..] (ἐτῶν) μβ´

Diplomatic

[·.]Α[.]Ε..ΘΗ
[---]ΞΕΑΣ
[.. ? ..]
ΣΩΣΙΚ.ΑΤΟΥ
5[·]
L ΠΖ.[.]ΣΟΡΗ
ΚΒ[.. ? ..]ΙΑΟΗ
ΑΝ[.. ? ..] L ΜΒ

Apparatus

1: Α ΕΙΤΑΘΗ Pacho, 1827
2: ΞΕΛΓ Pacho, 1827
4: ΣΩΣΙΚΙΑΤΟΥ Pacho, 1827
6: πζ΄Μ : LΠΖΑ ΣΟΡΗ Pacho, 1827; L ιζʹ [Με]σορὴ CIG, Vol.III
7: ΚΒL ΙΑΟΗ Pacho, 1827; L κβʹ [Ἀγ]ά[θ]η-- CIG, Vol.III
8: ΑΝ LΜΒ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?, Phamenoth 8, [ . . -]xeas (scil. son) of Sosikrates, aged [ . . ]. Year 87, Mesore 22, [ . . . ], aged 42.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5358a.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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


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