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P.218. Funerary inscription

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.

Interpretive

Εὐεχ[ ( vac. 1)?]-
ε̣ίδα[ς]
Ση̣μ[ω-]
νιδα[ ( vac. 1)?]
5 ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΕΥΕΧ[.]
.ΙΔΑ[.]
Σ.Μ[.-]
ΝΙΔΑ[.]
5      

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).