Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.10 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.54) with text on two
faces: i. Surface damaged above and at right side. ii. Surface damaged all over.
Text: Inscribed on two faces.
Letters: i. Letters: perhaps second century; c. 0.19; lunate epsilon; ii. Letters: fourth-fifth century; 0.24; cursive omega.
Date: i: Perhaps second century CEii: 364-375 CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Turkish castle, tower of the wall south of the guardhouse; recorded in 1910.
Subsequently found lying loose near sea-shore.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ] market-building [ . . . (ii: Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
i: A reference to construction of a market (macellum) or some feature in a market.
ii: The imposing script is formal, and suggests a fragment of an imperial title. For further fragments of blocks from probably a similar period, but with slightly different scripts, see T.249 and T.17.
Bibliography: i: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 106, with a drawing; copied by Halbherr, whence Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 465 (335), pl. LXXXIV, Fig.51a (drawing only), whence SEG 9.550
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text i (Joyce Reynolds, NS.IV.34)