Description: Two pieces from the top of a broken panel, probably Proconnesian marble (together w:
0.39 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.05).
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Very roughly cut, 0.03; lunate epsilon, coursive omega.
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Village, by the seashore, re-used in the Italian lighthouse;
found during the demolition of the lighthouse in 1973.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] of the young men [ . . .
Commentary
The fragments were found together with the marble fitments of a church, probably Justinianic in date, but the text given here must be much earlier. It seems likely to be a reused piece. The one word surviving might suggest an originally ephebic context.
Bibliography: Unpublished
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.XV.23)