Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade. with
T.313 and T.314
Text: Inscribed within a sunk rectangular panel (w:
0.65 x h:
0.18)
above the door, to the right of T.314; the upper left corner is broken away and the face crossed by several large cracks.
There are modern graffiti below the text.
Letters: 0.05; lunate epsilon and lunate sigma; at least two different hands.
Date: Perhaps second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East V, West wall, to the right of entrance. First recorded in 1825 (incompletely).
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΑΛΙΤ ΘΚΟϹΙΖ Pacho, 1827; [Κ]αλίτυ[χ]ος ιζʹ CIG, Vol.III; [Κα]λλι[τύ]χης ? ιζʹ ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: /ΙΛΙΖLκιΓ . . ΑΝΓΕΛΙϹLιε Pacho, 1827; [Φῆ]λιξ L κʹ. Γ[άιος Ἀ]νπέλις L ιεʹ CIG, Vol.III; [Φ]ῆλιξ L ιʹ [Εὐαγ]γελιος L . . Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Callitiche [di anni] 17. Felice, di anni 10; Euangelio, di anni -
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Kallitychos, aged 7. . . . 17, Year 23, Euangelios, aged 16
Commentary
Line 2: 17: presumably the name of the month preceded, but the traces of its last letter make no sense.
Year 23: implying the reign of Augustus or Tiberius in the first century, or of Pius in the second century.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5304; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 303 (178, La. V.I,2), whence SEG 9.570
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXVI)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra III.2.32, NS.IV.32)