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P.245. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with P.244 and P.245.
Text: Inscribed to the right of the door within a lightly sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.42 x h: 0.68).
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; 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´ Λύκα Ϲταλακ-
( vac. 1)κίου (ἐτῶν) με´

Diplomatic

L ΙΒΛΥΚΑϹΤΑΛΑΚ
  ΚΙΟΥ L ΜΕ

Apparatus

1: L'ΒΛΥΚΕϹΤΜΛΚ Pacho, 1827; L ιβ΄ Λύκε Στ[αλα]κ- CIG, Vol.III; ILΒΑ.ΚΑϹΤΛλΑΚ Robinson, 1913; L ιβ΄ Λύκα(ς) Σταλακ- Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 18. Luca di Stalaccio, di anni 45.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 12, Lyka (scil. daughter) of Stalakkios, aged 45.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5216; corrected, Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 198; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 491 (15), p. 245, whence SEG 9.377, PHI 324226.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 84)