Description: Roughly rectangular sandstone
stele
(w:
0.62 x h:
0.80 x d:
0.35).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04; superscript bars above the figures in line 3.
Date: 13th September 88 - 12th September 89
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, South Tower, in situ against the extra-urban wall; found in 1936,
.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
Interpretive
Iussu Imp(eratoris) Domitiani Cae-
saris Aug(usti) Germ(anici) pont(ificis) mạ-
ximi trib(unicia) pot(estate) VIII p(atris) p(atriae) co(n)ṣ(ulis) X̣[II]IỊ
cens(oris) perpetui C(aius) Pomponi-
5us Gallus Didius Rufus
proco(n)s(ul) locum pusses-
sum a priuatis ciuitati
Ptolemaensium res-
tituit ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
IUSSUIMPDOMITIANICAE
SARISAUGGERMPONTM.
XIMITRIBPOTVIIIPPCO..[..]I.
CENSPERPETUICPOMPONI
5USGALLUSDIDIUSRUFUS
PROCOSLOCUMPUSSES
SUMAPRIUATISCIUITATI
PTOLEMAENSIUMRES
TITUIT
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1943, 102, n. 3 (text only); Caputo, 1954 vol. III, p.51, fig. 27 (illustration only); from these, AE 1954.188, EDH 018137; Kraeling, 1962 pl. VI A (illustration only; not legible); mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 104.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Front view.
Fig. 2. Text (no focus)