Description: Block of limestone, probably cut down for re-use, badly damaged to the right
(w:
0.74 x h:
0.51
x depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face which is worn in the centre and lost to right.
Letters: Too poorly cut on too poor a surface to date: line 1, 0.07; lines 2 f., 0.05; cursive ε, ω and μ and perhaps Ο and Υ in ligature.
Date: First-sixth century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
'Palace of the Dux', re-used in the West wall of the corridor; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, 2008.
Apparatus
2: The third letter might be χ.English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
The initial impression is of a late imperial text but the probability of the restorations δευτέρου in line 2 and an oblique case of γυνή in line 3 may suggest a reference to Ptolemy Euergetes II or Soter II and his wife.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 35 and plate LXVI, whence SEG 27.1187
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, I. 63)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)