Description: Two limestone
blocks from a Doric entablature with architrave and frieze in one
(a. w:
1.16 x h:
0.63 x d:
0.41; b. w:
0.18 x h:
0.63 x d:
0.41).
Text: Inscribed on the frieze.
Letters: 0.14.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Unknown
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] Augustus, pious [ . . .
Commentary
There has been a deliberate attempt to erase the inscription, probably when the blocks were re-used.
a. Probably Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius or Commodus, since in the third century the title Pius normally precedes Augustus.
Bibliography: A reference to a., Kraeling, 1962 p.79, note 100, referring to a note from Caputo.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Part a (Reynolds NS.XII.10)
Fig. 2. Part b (Reynolds NS.XII.9)