Description: Rock-cut tomb still partly buried,
inscribed on the façade with T.655, T.656,
T.657, T.658, T.659,
T.660, T.661.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w:
0.55 x h:
0.85)
outlined in relief. To the right of T.655, above the door and extending to the right.
Letters: 0.045; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: 13 BCE-1 CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XVII, East wall. First recorded in 1825 and photographed in 1936
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: LΟΤ...ΑΥΑΝ Pacho, 1827; L δʹ, Παῦνι Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: ΛΥ Pacho, 1827; -- Φιλ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
3: ΘΟΕΥΚ ΒΙΛΝ Pacho, 1827; οθευκ[λῆς] Ἀβιανί Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
4: ΑΞΠ ΡΙΓΚL Pacho, 1827; ου L ηʹ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
5: ΑLΙ ΟΣΜΑ Pacho, 1827; L] δʹ, Φαῶφι γʹ Πρ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
6: [α]ξίδαμος Μαγ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
7: Μ LΚ Pacho, 1827; ίω L βʹ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 4, Payni -. Filoteucle di Avianio, di anni 8.
Anno 4, Phaophi 3. Prassidamo di Magio, di anni 2
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 9 (19?), Tubi 4, Aouiania (i.e. Aviania) [ . . . ], aged 33. Year 20, Thothy 20, L(oukios) Abianios (i.e. L(ucius) Avianius) Ioannes, aged 18. Year 30, Epiphi 23, L(oukios) Abianios Maximos (i.e. L(ucius) Avianius Maximus), aged 2.
Commentary
Line 1: In view of the date of the next entries, the reading should perhaps be [ι]θ΄, 19, making the date 12 rather than 22 BCE.
Line 5: The figure is too high for a regnal year, so 1 CE; this suggests that Year 20, in line 2, should also be Actian, 11 BCE.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5358c, left; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 453 (326,1, La.XVII.3,5), pl. LXXXII, fig.48 , whence SEG 9.716.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).