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P.229. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade (no panels), which has been roughly dressed to resemble masonry; i, above the door, ii to the left of the door
Letters: i: first century, CE 0.12 - 0.13, square sigma; lightly cut with unusually broad trenches; ii, letters erased

Date: i: First century A.D

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.a.i.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Κ(οΪντου) Ὀβιολήνου
Πρίνκεποϲ
ii
[---]⟦ιος⟧

Diplomatic

i
ΚΟΒΙΟΛΗΝΟΥ
ΠΡΙΝΚΕΠΟϹ
ii
[---]⟦ΙΟΣ⟧

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): (scil. Tomb) of K(ointos) Obiolenos Prinkeps (i.e. Q(uintus) Oviolenus Princeps)(i.e. Lucius). (ii: Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. i, face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.95)