Description:
Rock-cut tomb. In relation to the present ground level the monument is sharply tilted backwards;
presumably the ancient ground level sloped upwards here.
Text: Inscribed on the façade within a gabled panel (w:
0.27 x h:
0.57) outlined in relief, the sides cut to simulate columns. Entries in three different hands. In
line ii.2 the cutter avoided a hole in the stone.
Letters: 0.025- 0.03; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega; and L for ἔτους, ἐτὢν.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.i, south wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i.1: ΛΛϹΤΟΡΝΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; [Κ]λ[α]ύ(διο)ς Τόρνιος CIG, Vol.IIIi.3: ΛΚΗΝΟΔΩΙΔΙ Pacho, 1827; [Ἀθ]ηνοδω[ρου CIG, Vol.III
i.4: ΠΑ·ΜΑΙΚΟΕ Pacho, 1827; L] π[α]΄ Μ[άρ]κος CIG, Vol.III
i.5: ΙΗ Pacho, 1827
i.6: ΙΟΠ at end Pacho, 1827
ii.1: ΣΘ ΟΥϹΠΡΙΛΙ Pacho, 1827; Σ[ῶσι]ς Π[οπ]λί CIG, Vol.III
ii.2: ΟΥ vacat Pacho, 1827 The cutter avoided a hole in the stone.
iii.1: Μ ΚΟϹ Pacho, 1827
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i) L(oukios) Astournios Phronto (i.e. L(ucius) Asturnius Fronto). L(oukia) (i.e. L(ucia)) Ζenodora, aged [?]. Year 14, Markos (i.e. Marcus) (scil. son) of Poplios (i.e. Publius), aged 8. Poplios (i.e. Publius) (scil. son) of Poplios (i.e. Publius) aged 3.
(ii) Iesous (scil. son) of Poplios (i.e. Publius), [aged] 3.
(iii) Markos (i.e. Marcus) (scil. son) of Poplios (i.e. Publius), aged 18.
Commentary
Line i.2: A nomen of Etruscan origin; c.f. W.Schulze, Zur Geschichte Lateinischer Eigennamen, p 131.
Line i.4: Presumably an error for Μᾶρκος.
Line ii.1: The name indicates a Jew.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5240; Smith-Porcher, 1864, 67, pl.54, no.6 drawing only; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVI)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds V (Tolmeita I).26)