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P.238. Funerary inscriptions

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.

Interpretive

i
Λ(ούκιοϲ) ((stop)) Αὐϲτόρνιο[ϲ]
Φρόντων ( vac. 1)
Λ(ουκία) ((stop)) Ζηνοδώρα (ἐτῶν) [.]
(ἔτους) ιδ´ Μαῖκοϲ (sic)
5Ποπλίου (ἐτῶν) η´
Πόπλιος Ποπ-
λίου (ἐτῶν) γ´
ii
Ἰ̣ηϲοῦϲ Ποπλί-
ου̣ [(ἐτῶν)] γ´
iii
Μ[ᾶ]ρ̣κοϲ
Πο( vac. 1)πλί-
ου ( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) ιη´

Diplomatic

i
Λ ΑΥϹΤΟΡΝΙΟ[.]
ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ  
Λ ΖΗΝΟΔΩΡΑ L [·]
L ΙΔΜΑΙΚΟϹ(sic)
5ΠΟΠΛΙΟΥ L Η
ΠΟΠΛΙΟΣΠΟΠ
ΛΙΟΥ L Γ
ii
.ΗϹΟΥϹΠΟΠΛΙ
Ο.[]Γ
iii
Μ[.].ΚΟϹ
ΠΟ  ΠΛΙ
ΟΥ   L ΙΗ

Apparatus

i.1: ΛΛϹΤΟΡΝΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; [Κ]λ[α]ύ(διο)ς Τόρνιος CIG, Vol.III
i.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)