Description:
Rock-cut tomb, inscribed with P.242
and P.243.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door, next to P.242.
Letters: Probably first century CE: 0.09 - 0.12; lunate epsilon; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen; roughly cut.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.i, north wall;
first recorded in 1910.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Loukios Aboukios (i.e. Lucius Abuccius) Eutychos.
Commentary
A superscript bar above the first letter shows that it is a praenomen.
For the last two letters of the nomen Ἀβούκιος/Abuccius (for which see W.Schulze, Zur Geschichte Lateinischer Eigennamen, p. 359) the cutter dropped register in order to avoid a crack in the stone.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 88, whence Sammelbuch, I.5923.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.83)