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P.223. Funerary inscription

Description: Lower part of a sandstone stele, with a hole through the base for a peg to hold it upright (w: 0.33 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a simple raised border.
Letters: ?Pre-Roman; 0.04; L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First century B. C.

Findspot: Ptolemais: Wadi Khambish, to the west, in a pile of stones ‘almost opposite the Police Station’; recorded in 1970.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

K[---]
( vac. ) ΤΑ[---]
( vac. ) (ἐτῶν) [---]
( vac. )

Diplomatic

K[---]
      ΤΑ[---]
       L [---]
      

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] aged [ . . ..

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Bazama-Reynolds, 1978-1979, 257-8 and plate LXXXVI.a, whence SEG 37. 1709.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).