Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door (no panel); in lines
2 and 3 the cutter has had to avoid holes in the stone.
Letters: Line 1, 0.155; line 2, 0.11; line 3, 0.10; cursive omega; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry II.i, south wall; found in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
L(oukios) Petronios (i.e. L(ucius) Petronius) Epaphroditos, for himself and his family.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Copied by Beechey, Thorn, 2006 290, VIII, whence SEG 56.2036; published by Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX) with Letronne, p. 403, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5222; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 97)