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P.244. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with P.244 and P.245.
Text: Inscribed above the door within a lightly sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.65 x h: 0.27).
Letters: Line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.07; line 3, 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century A.D

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιβ´ Φλάβιος
Σταλακκίου
ἐτῶν ((stop)) μ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΒΦΛΑΒΙΟΣ
ΣΤΑΛΑΚΚΙΟΥ
ΕΤΩΝ Μ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 12, Flavio di Stalaccio, di anni 40

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 12, Flabios (scil. son) of Stalakkios, aged 40.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5239; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 490 (14), p. 245, whence SEG 9.376, PHI 324225.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)

   Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 85)