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 right of P.267,
above GVCyr 43.
within a sunk tabella ansata
(w:
0.70 x h:
0.35). In line 3 the cutter has avoided a hole in the stone
Letters: 0.03; cursive epsilon and omega, lunate sigma.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1-2: Pacho could not make out the middle part of these lines; Norton saw a little more3: ΕΓΤΟΥΔΙΟΝ Pacho, 1827; ἕ[κ]του Δί[ω]ν CIG, Vol.III; L-ουδιον Robinson, 1913
4: ΕΒΦΛ ΜΟΥΕΝΚ Pacho, 1827; ἑβ[δό]μου . . . . CIG, Vol.III; L ιβ΄Φαρμ[ουθι] κ΄ Robinson, 1913
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 8, Choiak ?, Ioanes (scil. son) of Euphranor aged ?; Philemon aged 27.
Year 13, Joudion (scil. child) of Euphranor, aged 12.
Year 2, Pharmouthi 20, Theodotos (scil. son) of Euphranor, aged 35.
Commentary
Apparently Jewish names
Line 4, Year 2, Pharmouthi 20; since it is unlikely that there was a long gap between this and the preceding entry, the reign by which the first entries are dated was probably not much more than 13 years long - the earliest possible reign is that of Claudius, in which case this entry belongs to the reign of Nero.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5204; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 197; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 32.c, whence SEG 33.1467, PHI 324641.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
