Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade,
which is still partly buried, with texts T.489,
T.490,
T.491, T.492,
T.493, T.494.
Text: Inscribed within a panel of roughly conical shape (w:
0.21 x h:
0.40)
outlined by an incised line, to the right of T.490.
Letters: 0.025; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, south wall; first recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 3, Tybi 20. Seconda di Eros, di anni 35
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 3, Tubi 2nd, Sephoris, daughter of Abeos, aged 35
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 3, 20.Tybi, Secunda des Eros, 35 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 3, Tybi 20, Sekonda (i.e. Secunda) (scil. daughter) of Eros, aged 35.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 413 (287, La.XV.11.8), p. 225, pl. LXXXI, fig. 46, whence SEG 9.676; Gray, 1956, 26, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, listed, SEG 16.927; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 51.c.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View of the façade. From left: First group: T.489, T.490, T.491, T.492, ?T.493, ? T.494; second group: T.499 above T.498 above T.495 and T.496, T.500 above T.497, T.501 above T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.509 above T.510 above T.511, T.515 aboveT.514 above T.513 above T.512. (Reynolds XII.9)