Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with
P.247 and P.248.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door, above P.247, in a rectangular panel (w:
0.66 x h:
0.31) whose surface is badly damaged.
Letters: 0.035; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma.
Date: First century A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.i, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 80: Eithallas [(scil. son) . . . ] of [ . . . -]nos [ . . . ] aged 70.
Commentary
Proabbaly recording at least two people, lines 1-2, 3-5.
The name in line 1, suggested by Cathein Dobias-Laou, is presumably related to the attested Ἰτθαλλάμμων
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
front "Face (Joyce Reynolds V.29, Tolmeita I. 29)")
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds V.29, Tolmeita I. 29)