Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with P.253,
P.254, P.255.
Text: Inscribed within a round-headed panel outlined in relief (w:
0.44 x h:
0.70), the inscribed area badly worn; to the left of P.253.
Letters: 0.035; square omega.
Date: Probably first to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.b.ii; first recorded in 1825
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1-2: ΟΙΕ/ΧΙΣ Pacho, 1827; [L] ιε'/. . . χις CIG, Vol.III3: ΣΜΥΡΟΣ Pacho, 1827 The first two letters read by Pacho are no longer visible; Σμῦρος CIG, Vol.III
4: ΗΙΙΙΛΟΥΟΥ Pacho, 1827; . . . -λούου CIG, Vol.III
5: ΙΤΙΝΜΗ Pacho, 1827; [ἐ]τ[ε]λ[ευτ]η CIG, Vol.III
6: ΣΕΒΗ ΙΙΛ Pacho, 1827; σε β[ιώσας] CIG, Vol.III; Lε΄[ . . . ] Reynolds, 1983 . From this line onwards the reading is very uncertain.
7: ΙΕ . . ΕΤΗ Pacho, 1827; ιε΄ ἔτη CIG, Vol.III
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1983
Year [ . . . ], Mauros (or Tauros) son of Erilochos, aged 48. ?Year 5 [ . . ] aged ?
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year ?15, Choiak 6, Mauros (or Tauros) (scil. son) of Herilochos, aged 48.
?Seberiane [ . . ] aged ?
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5233; Reynolds, 1983, 4.b, whence SEG 33.1374, PHI 324558.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVII)
Fig. 2. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tolmeita 1.17)