Description:
Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, which is partly damaged, a number of texts being quite illegible,
with T.629,
T.630, T.631, T.632, T.633, T.634,
T.635, T.636, T.637, T.638, T.639,
T.640, T.641, T.642.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w:
0.22 x h:
0.27) outlined by an incised line, below text
T.629 in whose panel the gable encroaches.
Letters: 0.025; square sigma, cursive alpha; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; superscript bar above the figure in line 2.
Date: Either 11/10 BCE or 33/34 CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XV.17, East Wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 20, Mesore 2. Giuda di Giosippo (Giuseppe), di anni 100.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 20, 2.Mesore, Judas des Josepos, 100 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 20, Mesore 2, Judas (scil. son) of Iosepos, aged 100.
Commentary
Line 2: Year 20; since the lettering indicates a first century date, the regnal year must refer either to Augustus (11/10 BCE) or to Tiberius (CE 33/34).
Both names are clearly Jewish.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 441 (315, La.XV.17,3), p. 231 whence SEG 9.704; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 63.b whence SEG 33.1526, PHI 324701.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
