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P.265. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with inscriptions P.262, P.263, P.264, P.265, P.266.
Text: Inscribed to the left of the door within a sunk rectangular panel (w: 0.45 x h: 0.28).
Letters: 0.035 - 0.045; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega and alpha; lunate sigma probably for ἔτους; rough and giving an impression of late date which may be wholly misleading

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.c, north wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι´ Παίλιγν̣οϲ
βετράνοϲ
ἐτελεύτη-
ϲε ἐτῶν ν´

Diplomatic

.ΙΠΑΙΛΙΓ.ΟϹ
ΒΕΤΡΑΝΟϹ
ΕΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ
ϹΕΕΤΩΝΝ

Apparatus

1: ϹIΠΑΙΛΙΓΛΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; [L] ι΄ Πα[υν]ὶ Γ[ά]ιος CIG, Vol.III
2: Β : θ Pacho, 1827; [οὐ] CIG, Vol.III
3: ΕΤϹLϹYTH Pacho, 1827; ἐτ[ε]λ[ε]ύτη- CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Pailignos, a veteran ended his life, aged 50

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVI, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5221, whence Rossberg, 1876 57
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVI)