Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is
partly buried, with T.567,
T.568, T.569,
T.570; cf also T.571.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk triangular-headed panel, partly buried (w:
0.35 x h:
0.54),
the surface damaged above, on a north-facing wall to the left of T.568.
Letters: 0.04-6; cursive alpha and epsilon, sigma and omega; rectangular and lunate sigma; cursive and (perhaps) traditional omega;
several different hands.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, West wall. RAF Tomb C.
First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
1: ΛΛ|ΡΤΨ Σ Gray, 1956 .ΑYPTY, Reynolds in SEG 16
2: ΙΟΥΔΑΙΣ Gray, 1956 so SEG 16
3: ΙΑϹΩΝ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16; the sigma seems to have been cut over a tau cdl
4: OLATI Gray, 1956 Ἰουδαῖς, Reynolds in SEG 16
5: MMOC Gray, 1956 ...αλλος, Reynolds in SEG 16
6: IAAA Gray, 1956 Ἰουδαδ, Reynolds in SEG 16
7: ΕΚΟΚΙΔΔ Gray, 1956 corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16
8: M/ΔΔΔ Gray, 1956 Ἰουδαδ, Reynolds in SEG 16
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Myrty (?oder Myrto) des Judas, 16 (Jahre); Naso des Judas, 8 (Jahre); Kleodamos (?) des Judas, 4 (Jahre); Secunda des Judas, 4 (Jahre); . . . (?)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Myrty (Myrto?) (scil. daughter) of Ioudas, aged 16; Naso (scil. son) of Ioudas aged 8; [Kl]eodamos (scil. son) of Ioudas, aged 4; Sekonda (i.e. Secunda) (scil. daughter) of Ioudas, aged 4; [ . . .
Commentary
Gray could not make out enough text to translate.
Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 6, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings from J. Reynolds, SEG 16.878, PHI 324361; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 59.c, whence SEG 33.1519, available at PHI 324694.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
