Description:
Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade above a door (no panel),
on a surface destroyed to left and badly cracked before the last letter on the right end.
Letters: 0.18; lunate sigma; roughly cut
Date: First century A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.i, east wall; first recorded in 1910.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: Robinson did not report the first RhoEnglish translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] of Drakon, aged [1 or 1+]
Commentary
Line 1: Α, aged 1, 11, or a multiple of 10+1; another figure may be lost in the break. Drakon might be the owner of the tomb, or the father of someone whose name ended in R.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 87, whence Sammelbuch, I.5922
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, V.32, Tolmeita I.32)