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P.296. Funerary inscription

Description: Small stele of brown limestone with a round projection above, probably intended to suggest a head (w: 0.28 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.075).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.025; cursive epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First to third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Wadi Ziwana, in a field on the east side, a little south of the ancient road, in the same area where some remains of ancient tombs survive; found in 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1968).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) κ´
Με̣χ̣ὶρ ιϛ´
Ἀπολλών-
ιοϲ Ἰναθα
5(ἐτῶν) πϛ´

Diplomatic

L Κ
Μ..ΙΡΙϚ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ
ΙΟϹΙΝΑΘΑ
5 L ΠϚ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 20, Mecheir 16, Apollonios (scil. son) of Inathas, aged 86.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).