Description: Two adjacent shallow sandstone blocks (a: w:
0.72 x h:
0.43, b: w:
0.71 x h:
0.50) from a group
inscribed with T.132, T.133,
T.134, T.135, T.136, T.137,
T.138, T.139, T.140, T.141, T.142,
T.143, T.144, T.145, T.727, T.146,
T.147, T.148, T.149, T.150,
T.151, T.152, T.153, T.154,
T.155, T.156, T.157, T.158,
T.159, T.160, T.161, T.162.
Along fourth inscribed course.
Text: Incised on the face, to the right of T.155.
Texts i-iv are inscribed on Block a, i above ii, above iv, iii to the right of iv; text v begins on Block a, to the right
of v and is completed on Block b;
texts vi -vii are inscribed on Block b.
Letters: i, 0.09; ii, 0.18; iii, 0.10; iv, v, vii, 0.07; vi, 0.05.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
East Wall: in situ on the inner face, the second group south of the east gate.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
iii: Apparently a monogram, more deeply cut than the names; not recorded by Oliverio, and unexplainediv,.v: Not recorded by Oliverio.
vii: Oliverio read [(Ἔτους)] ιτʹ Θαννύ|ρας Κ̣υ̣ . . . (so SEG)
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
174: Emisathis Mach-. 175: Tarsipoli Anno 310?. Tanniras di Ci-
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Emisathis. (ii) Macharos. (iii) (monogram, undeciphered) (iv) Lysis. (v) Iasmis. (vi) Tharsipolis, Itthannyras, friends.
Commentary
vi: The first name seems to be in a different hand; but the use of the the ΦΙΛ monogram (for which see P.26) requires two names.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 174-175 (VII,39, VII,40), pl.LXIV, fig.12 whence SEG 9.445, PHI 324292, SEG 9.446, PHI 324293; i cited Masson, 1976, 60 vi, revised, cited Masson, 1976, 58, published Reynolds, 1979-1980, 3 and plate 1, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1981.663, SEG 30.1788,1, PHI 324536; also Reynolds, 1996, 2, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, SEG 46.2220.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 1-3; lower row T.149, T.150, T.151, T.152, T.153, blocks 1 and part of 2 (Reynolds NS.II.14)
Fig. 2. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 3-5; middle row T.153, blocks 1 and 2, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (Reynolds NS.II.15)
Fig. 3. T.156, first block, with T.153 and T.155 above (Reynolds NS.II.18)
Fig. 4. Upper row: T.145, T.727, blocks 2-5; middle row T.153, T.154, T.155, T.156, first block; lower row, T.160 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds Tocra I.4.21A, NS.II.21)
Fig. 5. View of group (Reynolds NS.II.20)
Fig. 6. View of group (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 7. View of wall (Reynolds, SB.V.300)