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P.239. Funerary inscriptions

Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade within two gabled panels outlined in relief, each containing a rosette in relief in the gable. The texts are obscured by whitewash.
Letters: Too high to measure; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; ii. square sigma for digamma

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.b.i, west wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) ι´ Μᾶρκος
Διμιτρια-
νὸς (ἐτῶν) ιδ´
ii
(ἔτους) ϛ´ Εὐ[φ]ρόσυ-
νος Δη̣μ̣η-
τριανὸς (ἐτῶν) ιθ´

Diplomatic

i
L ΙΜΑΡΚΟΣ
ΔΙΜΙΤΡΙΑ
ΝΟΣ L ΙΔ
ii
L ϚΕΥ[.]ΡΟΣΥ
ΝΟΣΔ..Η
ΤΡΙΑΝΟΣ L ΙΘ

Apparatus

i.1: L : E (corrected in CIG) Pacho, 1827
i.3: ΝΟΣΝΟΣ : ΙΙΙΟΣ (corrected in CIG) Pacho, 1827
ii.1: L : ECΕΥ ΡΟΣ Pacho, 1827; [L ε΄] Εὐ[φ]ροσ[υ] CIG, Vol.III; KθY. . TY Smith-Porcher, 1864
ii.2: Δ Η Pacho, 1827; Δημ[η] CIG, Vol.III; UIC Smith-Porcher, 1864
ii.3: ΤΗΛΑΟΣΙΟ Pacho, 1827; τ[ριαν]ός [L] o΄ CIG, Vol.III; IIIAΟLIO Smith-Porcher, 1864

English translation

Translation by: Editors

i. Year 10. Markos (i.e. Marcus) Dimitrianos, aged 14.

ii. Year 6. Euphrosynos Demetrianos, aged 19.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5216b, CIG, Vol.III, 5201; Smith-Porcher, 1864, 67, pl. 54, drawing only.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXV)

   Fig. 2. View (Reynolds, IV.31)


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