Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with inscriptions
P.262, P.263,
P.264, P.265,
P.266.
Text: Inscribed above P.262, in a sunk rectangular panel (w:
0.52 x h:
0.39)
Letters: 0.035; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen; much rougher than those
of P.262.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
M(arcia?) Sestia morì di anni cinquantacinque
English translation
Translation by: Editors
M(arcia) Sestia ended her life, aged 55
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5232; corrected, Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 198; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 485 (9) and fig. 72, whence SEG 9.372, PHI 324221
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVI)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita 2. 15)