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P.384. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone funerary stele originally capped by a round or triangular feature above a moulding, broken at the top (w: 0.36 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.11).
Text: Inscribed above the moulding and on the face below.
Letters: l. 1, 0.035; lines 2, 3, 0.025; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded; found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

[(ἔτους) ..]
Μεχε[ὶρ? ..]
Κανείνιοϲ
Γαίου (ἐτῶν) λγ´

Diplomatic

[··]
ΜΕΧΕ[..··]
ΚΑΝΕΙΝΙΟϹ
ΓΑΙΟΥ L ΛΓ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[Year ?], Mecheir [?]. Kaneinios (i.e. Caninius) (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius), aged 33.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II. 2)

   Fig. 2. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.26, NS.XVII.26)

   Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds XIII.39)