Date formula, from a funerary text
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: April 88 CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 33 and plate LXVI, whence [...] 27.1160.

[...] [...] ἐτῶν μγ. ἔτους ριη [...] [...] Φαρμουθὶ κ [...]

Translation

. . . ] aged 43. Year 118 [ . . . ] Pharmouthi 2-[^1] [ . . .

[^1: 20th-29th]

Commentary

Almost certainly a funerary stele recording a number of burials.

line 1: The end of one entry giving the age of the dead person (43), and the beginning of another giving the date of the next burial, year 118 of the Actian era = CE 87/8; for the layout cf. A.39.

Line 2: Pharmouthi 20 or 20 + = 15th April or up to nine days later.