Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade,
with T.495, T.496,
T.497, T.498,
T.499, T.500,
T.501, T.502,
T.503, T.504,
T.505, T.506,
T.507, T.508,
T.509, T.510,
T.511, T.512, T.513,
T.514, T.515;
there are also a number of illegible panels.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk panel with very slightly triangular head, still partly buried
(w:
0.28 x h:
0.35) leaning leftwards,
below T.510 and to the right of T.505.
Letters: 0.02 - 0.06; square sigma, cursive omega; very irregular.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: δ΄ : α΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: ὼν - Π]αν Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: κρ[άτει Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: α Παύλου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: δ΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 1, Pachon -. Pancrazia di Paolo, di anni 4.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1983
Year 4, Pachon ?, Poplis son of Rufus, aged 20.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 4, Pachon ?, Poplis (i.e. Publius) (scil. son) of Rouphos (i.e. Rufus), aged 20.
Commentary
The names are Latin; but note the Doric genitive case ending for Rouphos, as in T.519.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 425 (299, La.XV.12), p. 228, whence SEG 9.688; Reynolds, 1983, 19.q, whence SEG 33.1433, PHI 324612.
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)
Fig. 2. T.496 (part), T.497, T.502, T.503, T.504, T.505, T.506, T.507, T.510, T.511, T.512, T.513 (Reynolds NS.X.34)