Description: T-shaped funerary stele of limestone, the vertical tapering
towards the top, three small triangular features below (w:
0.285-0.265 x h:
0.49 x d:
0.12).
Text: Inscribed on the bar and on the vertical.
Letters: First-second century: 0.02 – 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, small stop after the abreviated praenomen in line 1.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
G(aios) Pompilios (i.e. G(aius) Pompilius) Syros , beneficiarius, served for 25 years, aged 83.
Commentary
For other soldiers at Ptolemais see P.67, P.201, P.326.
Beneficiarii are usually found attached to proconsules, legati Augusti, procuratores, praefecti, aediles, tribuni legionis, commanders of auxilia units and city troops.
Bibliography: Unpublished
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, Tolmeita II. 5)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XIII.32)
Fig. 3. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.24, NS.XVII.24)