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P.294. ?Funerary inscription

Description: Two adjoining fragments of a sandstone stele (w: 0.21 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.06).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps second century: 0.045.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Wadi Ziwana, about 4.50m seawards of the bridge; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

[---]Σ̣ΕΛΙΕ[---]
[---]ΑΣΚΑΙΣ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---].ΕΛΙΕ[---]
[---]ΑΣΚΑΙ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

Probably funerary, given the findspot.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.34, XVII.34)