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P.267. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, with inscriptions P.267, P.268, P.269, P.270, GVCyr 43.
Text: Inscribed i: above the door (no panel); ii: over door on the south side (divided by panels); iii: on east side of the door.
Letters: First century CE; 0.07-0.09; cursive omega

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.c, north wall; first recorded in 1910/11.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Γ(αΐω) Ἰουλίω
ii
Φ̣ίλωνος
iii
Φίλωνος

Diplomatic

i
ΓΙΟΥΛΙΩ
ii
.ΙΛΩΝΟΣ
iii
ΦΙΛΩΝΟΣ

Apparatus

ii: Φί]λωνος Robinson, 1913

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

i: des Gaius Iulius

English translation

Translation by: Editors

i. (scil. Tomb) of Gaius Julius.

ii. (scil. Tomb) of Philon.

iii. (scil. Tomb) of Philon.

Commentary

i: The absence of a cognomen suggests a date not later than mid first century CE

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 81, 82, 83 whence i, iii, Sammelbuch, I.5919, 5920; i: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 32.a, whence SEG 33.1465, PHI 324639.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of P.268 and P.267(Reynolds XII.83)

   Fig. 2. Text i (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.39)

   Fig. 3. Text ii (Joyce Reynolds V (Tolmeita I).25)

   Fig. 4. Text iii (Joyce Reynolds V (Tolmeita I).27)


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