Description: Two adjoining pieces of a sandstone
block with a plain moulding to the right, broken away to the left (w:
0.94 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.20).
Text: Inscribed across the face.
Letters: Probably first century CE: 0.06; triangular stop.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
North East Quadrant; found in 1962.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
? Am]mono[-]s (scil. built this) for himself and his children
Commentary
A funerary inscription recording the construction of a family tomb.
In line 1 it is just possible tha tthe break reflects an original fault in the stone, and thathere were no letters between ο and ς
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II. 40)