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P.283. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed above the door within a sunk triangular-headed panel (w: 0.31 x h: 0.32).
Letters: Augustan to first century CE; lines 1, 3, 0.04; lines 2,4, 0.035. There is a superscript bar above the abbreviated names in line 4.

Date: First century CE

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

Interpretive

Iulia
Lungi-
( vac. 1)na( vac. 1)
G(aii) I(uli) L(ungini) f(ilia) an(norum) VIIII

Diplomatic

IULIA
LUNGI
  NA  
GILFANVIIII

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Julia Longina, daughter of Gaius Julius Longinus, aged 9.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V). 33)