Description:
Stele of white marble, tapering towards the top, damaged above and along all edges:
w:
0.31-0.29 x h:
0.73 x d:
0.25.
Text: Inscribed on one face which is very worn.
Letters: First century CE. Line 1, 0.02; line 2, 0.25; line 3 ff., 0.03; cursive ε in lines 6, 9, 11; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; round stops
in line 2, a slanting line in line 3; bar above the final figure in line 3.
Date: CE 60-70
Findspot:
Apollonia:
Central Church,
in 1940.
Original location: Probably from the West Necropolis
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum, 2008.
Apparatus
1: [Ἰου]δ̣ίων : [Πασ]ίων Applebaum, 1954 SEG XVII reads [Ἰο]υ̣δ̣ίων5: Δωροθ[έου] Applebaum, 1954 SEG XVII reads Δωροθέ[ου], but there is no room for ΟΥ
6: ΛΑΘΕΡ[ . . . Applebaum, 1954
7: Applebaum does not have this line.
9: ΛΚ[ . . . Applebaum, 1954
10: . . . ]Η [ . . . Applebaum, 1954 SEG XVII reads L ρ Τ +++
11: Applebaum does not have any text from this line till the end. ; SEG XVII reads +++ Εἰρήνη
12: SEG XVII reads ++ ]ΤΑ̣Ι̣ +++ ]
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
Judion (?) des Philoxenos, 57 (Jahre); (Jahr) 93, 2.Hathyr, Marion des Dorotheos 35 (Jahre); (Jahr) 100. . . . 21 (Jahre); (Jahr) 100, . . . Eirene . . .
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . J]udion (scil. son) of Philoxenos, aged 57
Year 93, Hathyr 2 : Marion (scil. daughter) of Dorotheos, aged 35
Year 100: [ . . . ] aged 21
Year 100: Ti[- . . . ] Eirene [ . . .
Commentary
In view of the name in line 4 and possibly that in line 1, a Jewish funerary stele, probably from the West Necropolis (see on GVCyr 32).
line 1: Or Δίων,preceded by a date.
Bibliography: Applebaum, 1954, 20, p. 44, whence SEG 17.819 , whence PHI 324427; Reynolds, 1976, 48, whence SEG 27.1125bis, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 2; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 285..
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, II.50.1)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face, from above (2008, H.Walda)