Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: inscribed on the façade above the door within an incised
tabella ansata (w:
0.40 x h:
0.27) which is damaged at the lower right corner.
To the right of the panel there is an incised caduceus.
Letters: 0.05 - 0.06; lunate epsilon, cursive omega.
Date: Perhaps first century A.D
Findspot:
Taucheira:
East Rampart Quarry. Found in 1956.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: There is no room for Υ and possibly it was ligatured to Ο2: ΟΥ, probably in ligature, were squeezed into inadequate space
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(scil. Tomb) of Philokalos and Eutychides, the brothers.
Commentary
For the tomb, see Wright, loc. cit. 44 f. The caduceus to the right of the panel appears elsewhere at Tocra as an ephebic symbol - and this quarry is very near the presumed Gymnasium ; but the reference is perhaps to Hermes Psychopompos.
Bibliography: Wright, 1963, 50-53, drawing, fig. 10, whence, with emendations by J. Reynolds, SEG 20.770.a, PHI 324521, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.593.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.6.28, NS.VII.28)
Fig. 2. Monogram to the left (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra VI.6.29, NS.VII.29)