Description:
Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is partly damaged, a number of texts being quite illegible,
with T.629,
T.630, T.631, T.632, T.633, T.634,
T.635, T.636, T.637, T.638, T.639,
T.640, T.641, T.642.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
0.41 x h:
0.30)
above T.641. There is another triangular headed panel outlined
in relief above this text, but the surface is not legible.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, East Wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: LΕΦΑΜΕΝΟ Pacho, 1827; L ε΄ Φαμεν[ὼθ] CIG, Vol.III2: ΟΙΦΑΟΥΣ Pacho, 1827; [Β]α[θ]ὺς CIG, Vol.III
3: ΑΜΙ ΗΓΛ Pacho, 1827; Ἀμ[ύντα] CIG, Vol.III; Ἀμελίτα Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 , apparently correctly
4: K L Pacho, 1827; κ L CIG, Vol.III
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 5, Phamenoth 10. Philùs di Amelita, di anni 27.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 5, 10.Phamenoth, Philus des Amelitas (?), 27 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 5, Phamenoth 10, Philous (scil. daughter) of Meliton (written Melita), aged 27.
Commentary
Line 2: Perhaps Φιλοῦσα, found at Sparta, Argos and Panticapaeum (LGPN)
Line 3: Ἀμελιτα is not attested; apparently an error for Μελίτων, found in the same group, T.634 and T.640.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXVI whence CIG, Vol.III, 5268; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 443 (317, La.XV.17,5), p. 232, whence SEG 9.706; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 63.f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
