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P.282. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed above the door within a sunk round-headed panel (w: 0.46 x h: 0.46); there is a fault running down the centre of the face.
Letters: Probably first century CE; 0.045; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, S-shaped digamma.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry II.ii.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Κάρτυ-
λοϲ
ἐτῶν
ϛκ´ ἡ(μερῶν) [.]

Diplomatic

ΚΑΡΤΥ
ΛΟϹ
ΕΤΩΝ
ϚΚΗ[·]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Kartylos, aged 26 years, [ . . ] days.

Commentary

The numeral for teh days is illegible.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 98)