Description:
Sandstone
stele, roughly tapered towards the top, probably damaged down the right side (w:
0.28 - 0.155 x h:
0.365 x d:
0.13.)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably first century CE: 0.018; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους; square sigma for digamma, bars above the figures
in line 4.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Wadi Khambish necropolis,
beside the main road, just east of the bridge; found in 1969.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Unknown
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1983
Year 10, Choiak 16: Dorka (scil. daughter) of Iosepos, aged 33.
Commentary
Lines 2-3: The names indicate a Jewish family.
Line 4: Presumably aged 33; the first figure is aligned under Ι of line 3 so that either L = ἐτῶν was cut in the margin or omitted altogether.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 7, whence SEG 33.1378, PHI 324562.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, NS.I.34, Tolmeita 69.1)