Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade
with T.315, T.316,
T.317, T.318;
connected, as the names of its owners show, with T.319,
T.320, T.321.
Text: Inscribed on the façade within tabella ansata in relief (panel
w:
0.72 x h:
0.20) with a Maltese cross in the left ansa;
moss has grown over part of the surface since the
photograph published by Oliverio was taken, and the right ansa has lost its surface. Above T.315 and T.316.
Letters: Fifth-sixth century: 0.035; lunate epsilon, sigma; superscript bars above the first two abbreviations in line 2 and that in
line 3.
Date: Fifth-sixth century.
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East V, South wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΑΝΑΘ ΝΑΕΕΤΑ Pacho, 1827; ἀνάΘ[εμ]α ἔ[ϲ]τα[ι] CIG, Vol.III; ἀνάθημά ἐστι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 ; so SEG.2-4: Not edited in CIG
2: ΑΠΟΠΙϹΚΑΙωΚΟ Pacho, 1827; ἀπόπιϲ[θεν] καὶ οὐκέ- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: ΓΙΟΥΠΙ ΓΙΤϹΟΔΟ Pacho, 1827; τ̣ι οὔπω μή τις ὁδε[υτὴν] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; τ̣ι οὔπω μή τις ῟οδε SEG
4: ΘΑΠΤΕΙΗ ΤΙΞΕΝΟΝ Pacho, 1827; θάπτειν μή τι(να) ξένον Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; θαπτείη τι[ν]α ξένον Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003; θάπτει ἤ τι[ν]α ξένον cj. L. Robert, D. Feissel Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
There will be a curse from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit if anyone were to bury a stranger here.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
There will be a curse from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit if anyone buries a stranger here.
Commentary
Line 1: With anathema we would commonly find the imperative, ἔστω; but Pacho read the alpha of ἔσται; Oliverio saw an uncertain iota. Line 2: The form of the curse is paralleled on a tomb-stone from Beer-Sheba, dated in CE 588, SEG 34.1469, available at PHI 320108.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III 5292; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 304 (179, La .V.2,1), p. 202, pl. LXXVII, fig. 37(179), whence SEG 9.571; Reynolds, 1965, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1968.591a, Guarducci Epigrafia Greca IV (1978), 475; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 224, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, with D. Feissel, 2004.457, SEG 53.2071.2.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).