Description:
Limestone
base broken at the right side (w:
1.13 x h:
0.685 x d:
0.355).
Text: Inscribed on one face in two columns: i will have started in an adjacent block to the left; ii to the right of i.
Letters: 0.04-0.055
Date: 41 to 54 A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
"dans le mur de Kasr-el-Askar", Fortress of the Dux; recorded in 1825.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum (1985)
Apparatus
1: ΕΒΑΣΙΟΣ Pacho, 1827 ; ΚΛΑΥ : Καλυ Pacho, 18272: Θυγ : ΟΜ Pacho, 1827
1-2: [Πτολεμαιέων ὁ δῆμος ὁ φιλοσ]έβασ[τ]ος Ἀντωνίᾳ Κ[λα]υ[δίου Νέρωνος Δρούσου Γερμανικοῦ γυναικί (ἔτους) . . . ] Καίσαρο[ς Φα]μ[ενώθ . . . CIG, Vol.III from Letronne, reading Pacho's transcription as a continuous text, with lacunae.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
i. [---] ?Claudius] Augustus.
ii. Antonia, daughter of Claudius Caesar
Commentary
Clearly from a composite base carrying statues of the emperor Claudius and his family. Antonia, eldest daughter of Claudius, (PIR2 A 0886) survived until AD 65 CE, but the inscription in her honour is likely to belong to the reign of Claudius 41-54 CE. She had estates in Egypt; see PIR Addenda
Bibliography: Letronne, 1828, IV, pp.262-3; Pacho, 1827 LXXIV with Letronne p.400-401, and from these CIG, Vol.III, 5186 whence IGRR, I.1025.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXIV)
Fig. 2. Left column (Reynolds XIII.34.2)
Fig. 3. Right column (Reynolds XIII.34.1)
Fig. 4. Monument view (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.14, NS.XVII.14)