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P.159. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Fragment from the bottom of a limestone funerary stele (w: 0.35 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.05; lunate epsilon and sigma; very rough.

Date: Perhaps second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments; found in 1955.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

Text

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[---]ΙΔΟ̣Ι̣ΕΚΛ[---]
[---]Ι̣ΥΡΑΔΙΚΩΟ̣[---]
[---] ( vac. ) ἐτῶ̣[ν ---]

Diplomatic

Text

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[---]ΙΔ..ΕΚΛ[---]
[---].ΥΡΑΔΙΚΩ.[---]
[---]      ΕΤ.[.---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Possibly a man with patronymic, e.g. Ζωπύρα or Μύρα, Δικώου.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.25)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, XII.11)

   Fig. 3. From left:P.157 P.159 and P.161 (Reynolds XII.20)

   Fig. 4. P.158 in the foreground; behind, P.157, and P.159 (Joyce Reynolds, XII.11)