Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with
T.349, T.350, T.351
T.352, T.353 and
T.354.
Text: Inscribed above the door, with no panel; the inscribed area
(w:
0.79 x h:
0.19) is worn and partly obscured by whitewash.
Letters: 0.07; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East VIII, South wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: Μαρινικὸς ἐτῶν ιε' Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: Γιμυκος Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Τίμ[αρ]χος is tempting but not quite easy to reconcile with the faint traces.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Marinico di anni 15. Gimico di anno 10.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Kallinikos, aged 15. Timochos aged 10
Commentary
line 1. Though the reading is uncertain and the apparent formula is unusual, the sense is presumably aged 15.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 330 (203, La. VIII.5,5), whence SEG 9.596, cited, Applebaum, 1961, 51; discussed and revised Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 69, whence SEG 33.1533, PHI 324708.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).