Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
0.28 x h:
0.37),
damaged on the left side, above the door.
Letters: 0.05; lunate epsilon; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους; rather roughly cut.
Date: May, 25 CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XVII, East wall. First recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: L omitted by Pacho. ; Παχὼ : ΠΑΧΟ Pacho, 1827; [Ἐ]πα[γ]ο CIG, Vol.III2: Ο might be Ϲ. ΗΕΙΗϹΟΙΛ Pacho, 1827; [μ]έ[νων Ζ CIG, Vol.III
3: ωΙΛΟϹΚΛΙ Pacho, 1827; ώϊλος Κ[αν]- CIG, Vol.III
4: ΙLΥΔΑΤΟΥ Pacho, 1827; -[δι]δάτου CIG, Vol.III
5: ΙωΙΑΜΟΥ Pacho, 1827 Line omitted by CIG.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 11 of Ti(berius), Pachon 9, (scil. tomb) of Philon and Ioudas (scil. sons) of Beibiarios (i.e. Viviarius).
Commentary
Line 1: we see no other way of explaining the letters ΤΙ, than as a reference to the emperor.
Line 2: The enigmatic ΗΟ should express 'tomb', followed by the genitives of two brothers who apparently died on the same day.
The names are apparently Jewish.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5359a.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXV)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds NS.VII.4)