Description: Triangular-topped limestone
stele (w:
0.34 x h:
0.89 x d:
0.11) broken above and perhaps at the left side.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first century BCE; average 0.06.
Date: Perhaps first century BCE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Wadi Khambish necropolis,
lying on the surface on the east bank,
just south of the road; found in 1969.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Eucheidas (scil. son) of Semonidas.
Commentary
Presumably funerary. For the cemetery, and some pre-Roman materials, see Bazama and Reynolds, art. cit.
Bibliography: Bazama-Reynolds, 1978-1979, 258 (lower), whence SEG 37.1711
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).