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P.268. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, with inscriptions P.267, P.268, P.269, P.270, GVCyr 43.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, to the left of P.267.
Letters: 0.18, square sigma

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [.] Χοάχ̣[ι.]
Ἰοάνηϲ (ἐτῶν) ιδ´

Diplomatic

L [·]ΧΟΑ.[.·]
ΙΟΑΝΗϹ L ΙΔ

Apparatus

1: Norton did not record L
2: The figure was read in 1910

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

Choiach . . . Johannes, 14 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?, Choiak ?, Ioanes, aged 14.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 80, whence Sammelbuch, I.5918; Applebaum, 1954, 22, p.45; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 32.b, whence SEG 33.1466, PHI 324640.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tolmeita I.42)