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P.253. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with P.253, P.254, P.255.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk triangular-headed panel, damaged at the right side (w: 0.41 x h: 0.48), above the door.
Letters: 0.03; cursive epsilon, square sigma; several different hands.

Date: Probably first to second centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.b.ii; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Νείκα̣[νδρ-]
οϲ Νεικ[α-]
γ̣όρα [c. 4]
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) μ̣´ [..]
5(ἔτους) ϛ´ Ϲάρρα Νει̣[κάν-]
δρου Χοιάχι α´
( vac. 3) (ἐτῶν) ιζ´ πλήρηϲ
( vac. 3) ( vac. 3) ἀρετῆϲ

Diplomatic

L ΓΝΕΙΚ.[...-]
ΟϹΝΕΙΚ[.-]
.ΟΡΑ[····]
   L .[··]
5 L ϚϹΑΡΡΑΝΕ.[...-]
ΔΡΟΥΧΟΙΑΧΙΑ
       L ΙΖΠΛΗΡΗϹ
            ΑΡΕΤΗϹ

Apparatus

1: : ΙΓΝΕΙΚ Pacho, 1827; Γ.Nεικ[ίας] CIG, Vol.III
2: ΓΝΓΙΚ Pacho, 1827; Γ. Ν[ε]ικ- CIG, Vol.III
3: ΙΑΟΙ Pacho, 1827; ία [ἐτ](ῶν) CIG, Vol.III
4: L Λ Pacho, 1827; L λ΄ CIG, Vol.III
5: LϹϹΑΙΙΔΝϹΙΙ Pacho, 1827; L [ε΄Φ]α[με]ν[ὼθ Πο-] CIG, Vol.III
6: ΔΓΟΥΧΟΙΔΧΙΛΙ Pacho, 1827; [Πολυ]οῦχο[ς Ἀ]χιλ[λέως] CIG, Vol.III
7: ΙΙΖ ΠΛΙΗϹ Pacho, 1827
8: Ρ : ΑΙΕ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 3, Nicandros son of Nicagoras [ . . . ] aged 40. year 6, Sara, daughter of Nicandros, Choiaki 1, aged 17, full of virtue.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Neikandros (scil. son) of Neikagoras [ . . . ] aged 40.

Year 6, Sarra, (scil. daughter) of Neikandros, Choiak 1, aged 17, full of virtue.

Commentary

The name Sara suggests a Jewish family

Line 7: The comment is a very rare feature in Cyrenaican funerary inscriptions.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5220; Reynolds, 1983, 4.a, whence SEG 33.1373 (PHI 324557).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVII)

   Fig. 2. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, NB V, Tolmeita I.18)


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