Description:
Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts
T.550, T.551,
T.552, T.553,
T.554, T.555,
T.556, T.557. There is an
illegible panel above the door and above that a niche.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
0.22 x h:
0.30)
to the right of the door, below T.550.
Letters:
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV, South side: RAF Tomb D.
First recorded in 1944.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 1, Tubi 14th, Basos son of Artemas, ?
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 4, 14.Tybi, Bassus des Artemas, 46 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 4, Tybi 14, Basos (i.e. Bassus) (scil. son) of Artemas, aged 46.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 9, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.888, PHI 324371; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.b, whence SEG 33.1509, PHI 324684.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds)