Description: Limestone base cut down and
reused as an octagonal column base for the drum cut in one piece above (maxima, w:
1.95 x h:
1.95 x d:
0.40)
Text: Inscribed on one surviving face (w:
0.37 x h:
0.20)
Letters: Line 1, 0.06; 1ine 2, 0.07; small scroll as abbreviation mark
Date: Third century CE or later
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] Eleutheropol[is) . . .
Commentary
The only obvious explanation is that Ptolemais was refounded with the new name Eleutheropolis which has left no trace in the literary record; cf. the refoundation of Cyrenae as Claudiopolis by Claudius Gothicus C.86.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 533 (57), p.257, whence SEG 9.407, PHI 324256.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
