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P.149. Fragmentary imperial titulature

Description: Limestone block (w: 2.25 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.67).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is badly damaged.
Letters: First century CE: 0.24.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments, south side; found in 1935/36.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Unknown

Interpretive

[--- pater p]ạṭṛ[i]ae co[(n)s(ul) ---]

Diplomatic

[---......]...[.]AECO[.---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[---] father of the country, consul [---]

Commentary

The stone was re-used as an uninscribed block in the entablature carrying P.148.

From an imperial title; the order of the items confirms the first century date suggested by the letter-forms. In fact by the second century pater patriae was regularly placed last in the list.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).