Description:
Sandstone
block trimmed down at the left end (w:
1.00 x h:
0.66 x d:
0.38).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a raised tabella ansata of which the left edge with ansa is missing.
Letters: Probably third-fourth century CE; lines 1, 3; 0.13; line 2 0.115; in line 3, o written in miniature; dot for stops; ligatures
in line 2 between NT, in line 3 between DU.
Date: Probably third to fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
House of the Triapsidal Hall, re-used; excavated in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
The infantry battalion of the third Augusta Legion (scil. made this); the overseer was Aurelius Mucianus duc(enarius).
Commentary
Line 1: Pedatura: presumably involved in the construction of military installations. The term is used of the detachments responsible for work on Hadrian's Wall: RIB 1944, 1945, and 2022 and 2053, both dated to 369.
Line 2: For a soldier from this legion see also P.67.
line 3: The name indicates Thracian origin; it is too common to allow of identification.
Bibliography: Goodchild-Reynolds, 1962, 2.a, pp. 39-40 and pl. XXIIIc; whence AE 1969/70.639, whence EDH 012430; see also Reynolds, 1965a, 1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, B. 317)
Fig. 2. Face (Department of Antiquities, B. 317)
Fig. 3. Face (The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48088)