Description: Rock-cut tomb still partly buried,
inscribed on the façade with T.655, T.656,
T.657, T.658, T.659,
T.660, T.661.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk rectangular panel (w:
0.39 x h:
0.32),
partly buried when photographed; lines 2 and 3 are taken from Oliverio. Below T.659.
Letters: 0.045; lunate epsilon, sigma; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: August, 15 BCE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East XVII, East wall. First recorded in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 15, Mesore 12. Rufo di Lucio, di anni 35.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 15, Mesore 12, Rouphos (i.e. Rufus) (scil. son) of Loukios (i.e. Lucius), aged 35.
Commentary
Line 2: The date is probably calculated by the Actian era (see on T.656), making the date August, 15 BC.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 452 (326, La.XVII.3,4), pl. LXXXII, fig.48, whence SEG 9.715
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
