Description: Lower part of a limestone
block (w:
0.83 x h:
0.82 x d:
0.43)
from a composite monument.
Text: Inscribed on the face which is very worn.
Letters: Too damaged to date: 0.04
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), re-used upside down in front of the second column base of the E Portico;
found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: Kraeling reported, but could not read, this line.2: ΚΡΙΤΩΝ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ ΧΑΡΙΝ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ? by the community] of the Barkaians and Ptolemeitans, in memory.
Commentary
The name of the honoured and the formal description of the civic authority are completely lost.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 36 pl. LIV d.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1957, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48764)