Description: Sandstone block (w:
0.71 x h:
0.37) from a group
inscribed with T.132, T.133,
T.134, T.135, T.136, T.137,
T.138, T.139, T.140, T.141, T.142,
T.143, T.144, T.145, T.727, T.146,
T.147, T.148, T.149, T.150,
T.151, T.152, T.153, T.154,
T.155, T.156, T.157, T.158,
T.159, T.160, T.161, T.162.
Along fourth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face. i above iii, above iv, above v; ii to the right of i, line 2.
Letters: i, 0.05; iii, v, 0.055; iv, 0.07.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira: East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i.2,.ii.1: Tυχηιάλμις Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936i.3: Ἀδδι[δ]α(ῖος) ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
iv: The last letter is cut over the final ΠΩ of iii.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
i and ii: Alexon Tichealmis Addideo ?
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Alexon, heart of Addidas. (ii) Ialmis. (iii) ?Thasterpon, (scil. friend/son) of Aeropos. (iv) Theudotos. (v) Atthy[-
Commentary
i: These three words, clearly in the same hand, should be taken together and though the phrase is unique it is analogous to the use of ἔθος, for which see T.27, and similar othe cases where a monogram, apparently for φίλος, stands between a name in the nominative and one in the genitive or dative: see on P.26. The interpretation is conclusive against Applebaum's suggestion that the third word is ethnic, Ὰδδιδαῖος derived from El-Hadida, and indicating a jewish emigré of the time of the Maccabees; see also Lüderitz, loc.cit. The names appear to be reasonably clear.
v: Most probably from the name Ἀτθυμάλλας, which was left uncompleted.
Bibliography: (i and ii only): Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 170 (VII, 35), whence SEG 9.441, PHI 324288, Applebaum, 1958, 74, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1960.440, mentioned SEG 16.875, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 41.c. (ii): mentioned Masson, 1976, 60, corrected Reynolds, 1996, 1, whence mentioned Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, SEG 46.2220.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Upper row: T.144, T.145 (block 1); lower row T.148, T.149, T.150, upper part of T.151 (Reynolds NS.II.11)
Fig. 2. Upper row, lower lines of T.144, T.145 (block 1); lower row T.148, T.149, T.150, upper part of T.151 (Reynolds NS.II.12)
Fig. 3. Centre, T.158; above, T.147, and T.148; below, T.161 (Reynolds NS.II.13)
Fig. 4. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)
Fig. 5. View of group (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)