Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with
T.295, T.296, T.297,
T.298, and T.299;
there are also three illegible panels.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk gabled panel
(w:
0.28 x h:
0.70)
To the right of T.298.
Letters: 0.045; lunate epsilon,omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; two different hands.
Date: First century A.D
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East II; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
2-3: δα Σί/μωνος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19364-5: Ἁθὺ[ρ] β΄ Φα/με[ν]ὼτ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Seconda di Simone, Hathyr 2 Phamenoth 4
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Sekonda (i.e. Secunda), aged 3 (scil. daughter) of Menelaos, year 12, Phamenoth 4.
Commentary
The order of items is unusual; filiation and date of death appear to have been added later.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 295, whence SEG 9.563; cited, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 68.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.5.34, NS.VII.34)