Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a sunk panel
(w:
0.31 x h:
0.49) whose surface is badly worn and pitted.
Letters: Second to third century CE; 0.03; square sigma, cursive omega, S-shaped Digamma. In line 5, L for ἔτους; superscript bars
above the figures in lines 1, 5, and above in line 5; probably several hands.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, east side; first recorded in 1963
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 7, Pachon 5, Hermogeneia (scil. daughter) of Julius [ . . .] Year ? [ . . ?month] 16,[ . . . ]dios (scil. son) of ?Geios [ . . ..
Commentary
Line 8: There seems to be a figure here but what survives makes no obvious sense.
Line 9: Perhaps [Τι(βέριος) Κλαύ]διος.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 41)