Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade,
with inscriptions T.516, T.517,
T.518, T.519,
T.520, T.521,
T.522, T.523,
T.524, T.525,
T.526, T.527,
T.528.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
0.35 x h:
0.40)
above the door to the right of, but in a higher register than, T.516;
the cutter has avoided a damaged area above the lintel.
Letters: 0.03; two slightly different hands.
Date: CE 57-59
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: LΠΟΕΠΜ Pacho, 1827; L [κθ΄] Ἐ[πιφὶ -] CIG, Vol.III; ιθ΄ Ἐπι[φ]ὶ γ΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; L? Gray, 19562: Σ : Υ Pacho, 1827
4: LΚ Pacho, 1827; L κ΄ CIG, Vol.III; L ι΄ Robinson, 1913; L μ΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 so Gray
5: LΛΑΟΥ Pacho, 1827; L λ΄ Ἁ[θ]ὺ[ρ -] CIG, Vol.III; L α΄ Ἁ[θ]ὺ[ρ -] robinson 1913; LΔ ΑΘΥΡ Gray, 1956
6: ΚΑΛΑΓΚΛΕΑ Pacho, 1827; ΚΑΛΛΙΚΕΑ robinson 1913; Καλλίκλεα Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; ΦΕΙΔΑ Ϲ/ΦΙΛΛΙΓ Gray, 1956; Καλλίκλεια Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
7: ΣΩΓΕΝΕΥΣ Gray, 1956
8: LΞΔ Pacho, 1827 CIG, Gray omit this line; LΕΔ Robinson, 1913
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 19, Epiphi 3 Teodoto di Tolemeo, di anni 40.
Anno 4, Hathyr -. Calliclea di Sogene, di anni 35.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year ? . . . ., Theodotos son of Ptolemaios, aged 40.
Year 4, Athur, P . . ., Pheid(i)as, Philip (. . . ), sons (?) of Sogenes.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 89, . . Epiphi, Theodotos des Ptolemaios, 80 (Jahre)
(Jahr) 4 . . . Hathyr, Kallikleia des Sogenes, 35 (Jahre).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 89, Epeiph ?, Theodotos (scil. son) of Ptolemaios, aged 40.
Year 4, Hathyr ?, Kalliklea (scil. daughter) of Sogenes, aged 35.
Commentary
Line 1: 89 of the Actian era, Epeiph (?) = CE 59 June/July.
Line 5: Year 4; since there can be no great lapse of time between the cutting of the first and of the second entry here this should be 4 of the reign of Nero (on the Egyptian reckoning) so 57/58 CE.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5296, p. 549; some corrections, Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 199; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 409-410, (283-4, La.XV.11.5-5b), p. 224, whence SEG 9.672, SEG 9.673; Gray, 1956, 39-40, whence listed SEG 16.924, SEG 16.925; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.b, whence SEG 33.1488, PHI 324663.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
