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:
0.32 x h:
0.30)
above T.517.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.045; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: August 3, CE 76
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ρς : ΡΕ Pacho, 1827; [ι]εʹ CIG, Vol.III; ιςʹ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; L Β Gray, 1956 , whence L ιε΄ Reynolds in SEG 162: ΚΗΙΛ Pacho, 1827; [ρ]ὴ ι[αʹ] CIG, Vol.III ρὴ ια΄ Reynolds in SEG 16. Line omitted by Gray
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 16, Mesore 10. Tolemeo di Teodoto, di anni 80.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 2, . . . . , Ptolemaios, son of Theodotus, aged 40.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 106, 10. Mesore, Ptolemaios des Theodotos, 80 (Jahre).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 106, Mesore 10, Ptolemaios (scil. son) of Theodotos, aged 80.
Commentary
Line 4: The name Theodotos is probably Jewish.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5344; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 408 (282, La.XV.11.4), p. 224, whence SEG 9.671; Gray, 1956, 38, whence listed, with comment by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.923, PHI 324406; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.c, whence SEG 33.1489, PHI 324664.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
