Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with
P.287, P.288 and P.289.
Text: Inscribed within a round-headed panel, sunk within a triangular-headed relief panel, a pair with P.288;
too high to measure.
Letters: First century CE; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, between guidelines.
Date: 49-59 CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry III, south wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: IWO . .OEW Pacho, 1827; Τιμό[θ]ε[ος]? CIG, Vol.III ; not recorded by Robinson.2: ΑΠΟΛΛWΝΤΟΙC Pacho, 1827; Ἀπολλων[ί]ο[υ CIG, Vol.III; Ἀπολλωνίου Robinson, 1913
3: .ΕΛΕΤΗΕLΝ Pacho, 1827; ἐτ]ελ[εύτησεν L] CIG, Vol.III; ἐτῶν Robinson, 1913
4: ΟΥΚ Pacho, 1827; κ΄ CIG, Vol.III; θῶθυ ια΄ Robinson, 1913
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 80+ .... I, Apollonios, lived well (scil. and died), aged 50, on Thoth 20.
Commentary
Line 1 a digit is possibly lost; the year is 80+ of the Actian era.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5190; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 78
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXV)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V).36)