Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, above the door, in two parts: i) within a rectangular area (w:
0.92 x h:
0.30). ii to the right of i, on a badly-damaged surface.
Letters: i: first-second century: 0.095; square sigma; L for ἔτους.ii: 0.045; lunate epsilon, L for ἐτῶν.
Date: i: CE 24/25
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
One of a group between Quarry IV and the sea; i recorded in 1936
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Apparatus
1: Τερτια[ς] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 ; Λασθένους Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19363: δ΄ : α΄ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
i: Anno 55. Terza di Lastene, Payni 1.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
i: Year 55, Payni 4, Tertias (scil. daughter) of Lasthenes.
ii: . . . ] Prokla [ . . . ], aged 75.
Commentary
i, line 1: The name could be the genitive of Τερτία (so LGPN, V1-61643); but for the form here see Robert, loc.cit.
Bibliography: i: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 489 (13), whence SEG 9.375, PHI 324224, on which Robert, 1960a, 394.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text i (1969, Reynolds NS.I.30)
Fig. 2. Text ii (1969, Reynolds NS.I.31)
Fig. 3. Text ii (1969, Joyce Reynolds)