Funerary inscription
created: Transcription, from a photograph (Reynolds).
source date: First to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

[...], 22.i, whence [...], 1979.658, [...] 28.1545; [...], 222, and pl. 59c.

Πούφαϲ

Translations

Tomb of Pupha

Commentary

For the tomb see Ghazal, loc. cit., with a plate which, however, obscures the final letter (not seen by Ghazal) and suggests that there may have been an additional letter at the beginning, perhaps from a date.

It is now established that the deceased was a woman, buried in the cavity with which the inscription is probably associated; her name, therefore, was Πούφα, not the masculine Πουφᾶϲ as in LGPN V1-61924.

For two further inscriptions found in this group of rock-cut tombs, see B.48 and B.49.