Description: Rock-cut tomb, 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,
to the right of P.287.
Too high to measure.
Letters: First century CE; very worn; cursive omega.
Date: 49-59 CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry III, south wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
3: Pacho and Robinson only reported this line, Pacho reading ΑϹ for ΛΙEnglish translation
Translation by: Editors
Year ?80+ , Pharmouthi ?, [ . . . ] of Ioulios (i.e. Julius), aged [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1: 80 or 80+ of the Actian era; a digit may be lost.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5205; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 84; from these Sammelbuch, I.5921
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXV)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V).37)