Description:
Block of limestone, roughly square with two corners hollowed out (w:
0.10 x h:
0.10 x d:
0.10).
Text: Inscribed in both hollowed areas; ii is in a reverse plane to i, written at 90 degrees.
Letters: Probably first century CE: 0.005 - 0.01; lunate epsilon, cursive mu; in i. 3 final epsilon reversed.
Date: Perhaps CE 14/15
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
It is quite unclear whether further text was inscribed on other surfaces.
i, lines 1 and 3: perhaps dates, 41 and 45 of the Actian era = CE 10/11, 14/15
ii: Perhaps a repetition of the first date.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text a above, b to the left (Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V). 64.