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P.256. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, above the door (no panel).
Letters: Second century; ave. 0.13; L for ἐτῶν; superscript bar above the first abbreviation; squared s-shaped digamma.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: in the passage between Quarry I.b.i and Quarry I c, south wall; first recorded in 1825
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Τι(βεριος) ((stop)) Κλ(αυδιος) ((stop)) Ἀπολλώ[νιος?]
( vac. 3) [(ἐτῶν)] δ̣ϛ´

Diplomatic

ΤΙ • ΚΛ • ΑΠΟΛΛΩ[....]
      [].Ϛ

Apparatus

2: Omitted Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Ti(beriοs) Κlaudiοs (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Apolloniοs (or Apollos), αged 36.

Commentary

The cognomen may have been Ἀπολλώνιος‚ or Ἀπολλώς.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5191; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)

   Fig. 2. Text left part (Reynolds VIII.72a)

   Fig. 3. Text right part


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