Description:
Rock-cut tomb, to the left of P.237.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door; above the inscription are three deep niches, apparently for the insertion of stelae
Letters: Probably first century CE; 0.13, lunate sigma; in line 1 the final letters written as sigma within omicron.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.i, south wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: Pacho omitted the final sigma, which is written within the omicron; Norton reported it.German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
Bassara, Cäsars Sklavin
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. Tomb of) Bassara, slave of Caesar.
Commentary
The name might be Jewish
This implies the presence of an imperial office at Ptolemais, cf. also P.49; see further Struffolino, loc.cit.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5194; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 195-6. From these Applebaum, 1962, 35; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 38; discussed Struffolino, 2014, 366-7.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.28)