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T.543. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is still partly buried, with T.542, T.543, T.544, T.545, T.546.
Text: Inscribed within a square panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.25), to the left of the door.
Letters:

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South side. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ια´ Ἁθὺρ
β´ Ἀρίμμ-
ας Ἰούδα
( vac. 2)(ἐτῶν) κα´

Diplomatic

L ΙΑΑΘΥΡ
ΒΑΡΙΜΜ
ΑΣΙΟΥΔΑ
     L ΚΑ

Apparatus

3: ΑΣ ΙΟΔΑ Gray, 1956 Corrected by Reynolds in SEG 16.

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 11, Athur 2nd, Arimmas, son of Judah, aged 21

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 11, 2.Hathyr, Arimmas des Juda(s), 21 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 11, Hathyr 2, Arimmas (scil. son) of Ioudas, aged 21.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 37; Gray, 1956, 21, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.541, and, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.905, PHI 324388; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 54.b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. T.542 above T.543 aboveT.544; to the left, T.546 (Reynolds XII.13)

   Fig. 2. Above T.546, below, from left, T.545 and T.543 (Reynolds XII.22)

   Fig. 3. T.543 (Reynolds XIII.14)