Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, i is above the door, within a sunk tabella ansata (w:
0.36 x h:
0.20); ii above a rectangular niche sunk into the rock above i (no panel).
Letters: i: 0.05; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, L for ἐτῶν; superscript bar above the figure. In ii letters are too high to measure;
cursive omega.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry II.i, south wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Alexandros, aged 60.
(ii)(scil. Tomb) of Diodoros
Commentary
ii: The reading is very uncertain.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text i (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 99)