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P.230. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a roughly rectangular panel (w: 0.51 x h: 0.32) defined by an incised line.
Letters: First century CE: 0.06; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega; roughly cut

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.a.i; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Βόλχαϲ
ἑαυτῷ
καὶ τοῖϲ
ἰδίοιϲ

Diplomatic

L ΓΒΟΛΧΑϹ
ΕΑΥΤΩ
ΚΑΙΤΟΙϹ
ΙΔΙΟΙϹ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3. Bolchas, for himself and his family.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5195 .
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)

   Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 90)