Description: Block of limestone (w:
0.62 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.43).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is badly worn.
Letters: Probably first century CE: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.05.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Square of the Cisterns, reused upside down in the east jamb of the door to the small Cisterns;
found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] provinces, first [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1. Perhaps from a name such as Cordus.
Clearly part of an official career which included a newly created post (primus), perhaps per Africanas provincias or some similar phrase; but too little survives for reconstruction.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.71.2)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XII.71.1)
Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds XII.82)