Description: Three adjacent sandstone blocks( a: w:
72 x h:
56; b: w:
75 x h:
56;
c: w:
70 x h:
57) in the City Wall, in a group which comprises
T.163, T.164, T.165,
T.166, T.168, T.169, T.170,
T.171, T.172, T.173, T.174, T.175.
In the second inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face: i: on block a, continued onto block b and completed on block c; ii.-iii: on block a; iv: on block b.
Letters: i, 0.43; ii, iii, 0.07; iv, 0.05.
Date: iii: 9/10 CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the third group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i.1: Μένι(ο)ς? / --ν Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936ii.1: Ἀρίβα(ι)[ος ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; Ἀριβαῖ[ος?]. SEG
iii.1: μ : ι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Menio? Aribeo ? Anno 10 Fil- Anno 14 Aristeas
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Menes. (ii) Arisan. (iii) Year 40, Phil[-. (iv) Year 14, Aristeas.
Commentary
ii: Applebaum following Oliverio's reading 'Αριβα took it as part of an ethnic 'Αριβαῖος which he derived from Kephar Haribah and explained as referring to a Jewish émigré of the time of the Maccabees; whatever the reading it seems more probable that this is a personal name; see Lüderitz op.cit.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 167 (VII,30, 31, 71), p. 173, whence SEG 9.439, PHI 324286, Applebaum, 1958, 74, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1960.440, SEG 16.875; discussed Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 41.c, whence SEG 33.1474, PHI 324648.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
