Description:
Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts
T.550, T.551,
T.552, T.553,
T.554, T.555,
T.556, T.557. There is an
illegible panel above the door and above that a niche.
Text: Inscribed within a square panel (w:
0.25 x h:
0.25)
to the right of the door.
Letters:
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South side: RAF Tomb D. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: LΚ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.3: ΚΑΣΣΙΩ Gray, 1956; Βασσίω Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 also Reynolds in SEG 16, whence LGPN V1-60697; Κάσσιω cdl
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 20, Pachon 20th, Marin son of Cassios, aged 70.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 2, 20.Pachon, Marin des Bassius, 70 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 2, Pachon 20, Marin (scil. daughter) of Kassios (i.e. Cassius), aged 70.
Commentary
The reading by Dobias-Lalou in line 3 is based on an excellent photograph by Elhaddar.
Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 33, pp. 46-47; Gray, 1956, 8, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings from J. Reynolds, SEG 16.887, PHI 324370; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.a.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds XII.9)