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 roughly square panel (w:
0.35 x h:
0.35)
to the right of the door, to the right of T.551.
Letters: 0.03 - 0.05.
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.
Apparatus
2: ΡΗ ΓΝΑΙΟΣ Gray, 1956; ρὴ ι΄ Ναῖος also by Reynolds in SEG 16, reading ι as α figure with a superscript bar.; ρὴ Γναῖος cdl4-5: ΑΡΤΙΩ/M Gray, 1956 Ἀρτε̣/μ̣[ᾶ]ς̣ Lν΄ Reynolds in SEG 16.
English translation
Translation source: Gray, 1956
Year 8, Mesore (8th or 3rd) Gnaios son of Artios (?), aged ?.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 8, 10.Mesore, Naios Bassius Artemas, 18 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 8, Mesore 8, Gnaiοs Bassios (i.e. Gnaeus Bassius) Artemas, aged 18.
Commentary
Line 2: the reading by Dobias-Lalou is based on an excellent photograph by Elhaddar.
Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 7, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.886, PHI 324369; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 57.c, whence SEG 33.1510, PHI 324685.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.100)