Description: Rock-cut tomb, on the façade with
P.287, P.288 and P.289.
Text: Inscribed below P.288,
within a rectangular panel outlined by an incised line (w:
0.28 x h:
0.28).
A crack in the rock cuts across lines 1 and 2.
Letters: Very rough: lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First century A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry III, south wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΘΛΕΙΧΑ Pacho, 1827; [L] θ΄ Λείχα[ς] CIG, Vol.III Robinson omits lines 1 and 22: ΑΜWΝ Pacho, 1827; Ἀμ[μ]ων[ίου ἐτ- CIG, Vol.III
3: ΕΛC Pacho, 1827; ελ[εύτησεν CIG, Vol.III; ϹΑϹ Robinson, 1913
4: ETIIIN Pacho, 1827
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Thassa (?) (scil. daughter) of Amonea, aged 25.
Commentary
Line 1: The reading is very uncertain; but it appears that Thassa is identified by the name of her mother, Amonea, strongly suggesting that she was a slave.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5189; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 85 (lines 3 and 4 only)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXV)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds V.34, Tolmeita I.34)