Description:
Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with
P.247 and P.248.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door to the left side,
within a sunk rectangular panel set within a gabled frame outlined in relief. There is another, illegible, triangular-headed
panel to the right of this.
Letters: 0.025 - 0.03; square sigma; L for 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.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Demetria (scil. daughter) of Chresimos, ended her life, aged 18.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5196; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVII)front "Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.30)")
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.30)