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P.258. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a rectangular panel (w: 0.44 x h: 0.88) flanked by pillars in relief upholding a moulded architrave above.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon and lunate sigma.

Date: Probably first to second centuries 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

(ἔτους) ιβ´ Φαρμουθὶ δ´
Πραξαγόρα [Ἰ]ω̣άνουϲ
(ἐτῶν) ιγ´

Diplomatic

L ΙΒΦΑΡΜΟΥΘΙΔ
ΠΡΑΞΑΓΟΡΑ[.].ΑΝΟΥϹ
L ΙΓ

Apparatus

1: LΙΒ*ΜΟΥΙΔ Pacho, 1827
2: ΤΙΡΑΕΑΓΟΡΝΩΛΝΟΙϹ Pacho, 1827; [Π]ρα[ξ]αγόρ[α Εὐφά]ν[ευ]ς CIG, Vol.III
3: II with a superscript bar Pacho, 1827; L ι CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 12, Pharmouthi 4, Praxagora, (scil. daughter) of ?Joanes, aged 13.

Commentary

The name may indicate a Jew; see Reynolds loc.cit.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX) and Letronne, p. 402, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5226; Reynolds, 1983, 5, whence SEG 33.1376, PHI 324560.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Façade, obscured by lichen (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds V.20)