Description: A quarry with three rock-cut tombs cut into a quarry, with
M.71 on the east wall, M.72 on the south wall,
M.73 on the west wall and
M.74 on the north wall.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door in a sunk rectangular panel
(w:
0.93 x h:
0.40).
Letters: Second century CE; 0.08; traces of modern plaster in the letters
Date: Second century CE
Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira:
quarry-necropolis of Hadrianopolis: above the entrance to the north-east tomb.
First recorded in 1924.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. Tomb) of free (i.e. ?freed) men from the city.
Commentary
Line 2: the word πόλις confirms the identification of a site near Driana as that of Hadrianopolis.
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961, 19.2 and fig.33, whence SEG 20.772.b, PHI 324523; mentioned Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.367; republished Jones-Little, 1971, 1, p.62 and Pl.III, fig. 4, whence SEG 26.1820, PHI 324715
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face
Fig. 2. Face