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 within a rectangular panel; there has been an attempt to dress the rock-face so as
to give the appearance of masonry.
Letters: Second-third centuries CE: 0.10; lunate epsilon and lunate sigma
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira:
quarry-necropolis of Hadrianopolis: above the entrance to the southern tomb (III).
First recorded before 1935.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Κlaudia Krateia (scil. made this) for herself and her own people.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961, 19.4. whence SEG 20.772.d; mentioned Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.367, PHI 324523; republished Jones-Little, 1971, 3, p.63 and pl.III, whence SEG 26.1822, PHI 324717
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face