Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade (no panel).
The inscription turns a right-angled corner as indicated.
Letters: Second century: line 10.075; lines 2, 4, 0.10; line 3, 0.11; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega. Superscript bar
above the abbreviated praenomen.
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.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
M(arkos) Oulpios (i.e. Marcus Ulpius) Epinikos, for himself and his family and Olpia (i.e. Ulpia) Athenais for herself and her family.
Commentary
Other inscriptions above the door have been erased.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX) and Letronne p.403, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5200; 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. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V). 87)
Fig. 3. Left end of text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V). 88)
Fig. 4. Right end of text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V). 70)