Description: An architrave block of sandstone (w:
1.83 x h:
0.445 x d:
0.66).
Text: Inscribed to the left of the central feature, which is badly damaged.
There is a Maltese cross at each end of the face, a third in the centre under an arch,
and a palm tree to the right of the central feature.
Letters: Fifth - sixth century: 0.02 - 0.03; cursive alpha, lunate and square epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; scrolls for abbreviation
marks in lines 1, 2; very irregular.
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Village, by the seashore; found in 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
Apparatus
2: The cutter has avoided a hole in the stone.English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
I, Flavius Aquila, count (comes), having made a vow, paid my vow.
Commentary
For the donor, see PLRE II, Flavius Aquila 2, referring to this text
Bibliography: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 199.3, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.456, SEG 53.2062.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XII.81)
Fig. 2. View (Reynolds XII.95.2)