Description: Fragment from the left side of a sandstone
stele (w:
0.18 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.17).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: l. 1, 0.02; lines 2, 3, 0.04; roughly cut between strongly marked guidelines.
Date: First - fourth century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] lies here
Commentary
The impression is that the Latin letters were cut by an indifferent workman who did not understand them. If the last line is correctly interpreted the text is funerary - but it is far from certain.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II.22)