Description: Block of limestone (w:
1.10 x h:
0.34 x d:
0.46).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.9; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; large ivy leaf stop in line 2.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Wadi Ziwana, necropolis just outside the line of the city wall;
first recorded in 1935
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot 1961.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] made (scil. this) for himself and his family.
Commentary
Clearly one of at least four inscribed blocks from a monumental tomb of some pretensions.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds III.40)