Description:
Marble
panel recontructed from three pieces (
0.60
0.59
0.12).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably sixth century: lines 1, 4, 5, 0.045; lines 2, 3, 0.05; an ivy leaf on a stalk at the ends of lines 2 and 4; eta with
a vertical stroke through the cross bar in line 5; superscript bar above the abbreviation in line 5.
Date: Probably sixth century
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
modern village,
in the area of the former military hospital; found before 1936.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Per la memoria, il (giusto) sonno ed il riposo (eterno) della, morta nella grazia del Signore, serva di Dio Giulia.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
For the memory, the rest and repose of the blessed servant of God, Julia.
Commentary
The dating is not very secure.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 534 (58), p. 257, pl. CVI, fig. 99, whence SEG 9.408, PHI 324257; Reynolds, 1960, 16; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 200.4; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 103.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds III.20)