Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade,
with texts T.547, T.548,
T.549.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w:
0.33 x h:
0.27)
outlined by an incised line, above the door. What seemed to be traces of a Hebrew inscription in the
gable (so SEG), are probably marks due to weathering.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; there may be superscript bars above the figures in lines 1, 6.
Date: 8 April, CE 80
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 110, Pharmuthi ?, Philocrates, son of Hermon, aged 38.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 110, 13.Pharmuthi, Philokrates des Hermon, 38 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 110 , Pharmouthi 13, Philokrates (scil. son) of Hermon, aged 38.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 13, whence, confirmed by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.894, PHI 32437; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 56.a.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
