Description:
Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts
T.558, T.559,
T.560, T.561,
T.562, T.563,
T.564, T.565,
T.566.
Text: Inscribed within an approximately rectangular panel (w:
0.75 x h:
0.25)
above the door.
Letters: 0.05; square sigma.
Date: 23 December, CE 74
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, Southwest corner: RAF Tomb B. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 105, Choiak 29th (possibly 19th), Dosithea daughter of Polyarchos, aged 9 (possibly 5)
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 105, 29.Choiach, Dosithea des Polyarchos, 6 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 105, Choiach 29, Dosithea (scil. daughter) of Polyarchos, aged 6.
Commentary
Line 2: The name Dosithea suggests a Jew
Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 36, p.46; Gray, 1956, 5, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.880, PHI 324363; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 58.a, whence SEG 33.1369.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
