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,
T.529.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
0.32 x h:
0.23)
to the left of T.522.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.035
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΑΜΕΣΟΡΙΗΑ Pacho, 1827; L] αʹ Μεσoρ[ὴ ι]αʹ CIG, Vol.III; L κα΄ Μεσορὴ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; [ . . . ]ΦΑΜΕΝΟΣ Gray, 1956; ΜΕΣΟΡΙ Gray, 1956 κα΄ Μεσορὶ γʹ Reynolds in SEG 16.2: ΩΕΕΝΗΣ Pacho, 1827
4: L ελʹ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 21, Mesore. Sogene di Dositeo, di anni 45.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
(30) Phamenoth 24th, (S)ogenes, son of Dositheos, aged 64.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
(35). . .. , Mesori . . . , Sogenes, son of Dositheos, aged 64.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(50.j) (Jahr) . . , 24.Phamenot, etc. [(Jahre)]
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(50.g)(Jahr) 21, 24.Mesore, Sogenes des Dositheos, 64 (Jahre).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 21, Mesore 24, Sogenes (scil. son) of Dositheos, aged 64.
Commentary
The identity of the two texts reported by Gray appears virtually certain
Probably a Jewish family
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXXIII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5344; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 407 (281, La.XV.11.3), p. 224, whence SEG 9.670; Gray, 1956, 30 repeated 35, whence listed, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.914, PHI 324397, SEG 16.922, PHI 324405; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.j, 50.g, whence SEG 33.1491, PHI 324666.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).