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P.33. Funerary inscription

Description: Upper right-hand corner of a limestone funerary stele, moulded above (w: 0.35 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.07)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon and sigma.

Date: Probably second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: near the West Gate; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

[---]ϲ Πτολε-
[μαίου ---] (ἐτῶν) λε´

Diplomatic

[---]ϹΠΤΟΛΕ
[.....---] L ΛΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ]s (scil. child) of Ptolemaios, aged 35

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II.21)