Description: Brown limestone stele of irregular shape, broken away at the left side.
(w:
0.34-0.58 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.10).
Text: Cut as mirror images (except for nu), and running from right to left.
Letters:
Date: First to fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Wadi Khambish, to the west; recorded before 1970.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. Tomb of?) Valen[s? . . . ] I lie [ . . . ] of nothing/no [ . . .
Commentary
The last line may be from a funerary protection formula.
Bibliography: Bazama-Reynolds, 1978-1979 p. 258 (upper) and plate LXXXVIb, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.837, SEG 37.1710.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IV.1)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds IV.55)