Description: Sandstone block (signs of moulding chiselled
away above); probably cut down for re-use (w:
0.45 x h:
0.43 x d:
0.25).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably first century CE; average 0.05; cursive omega; L for ἔτους.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Modern village; found in 1969.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Thoth? Anno 14. Musa-
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Thoth, Year 14. Mousaios
Commentary
Certainly funerary and perhaps for all its modesty an element from one of the vanished built tombs of the city ; the dead man's name, although Greek, is one favoured by Jews.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 268 (142), p. 191, whence SEG 9.527.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.I.15)