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P.386. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone funerary stele (w: 0.225 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.075).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE: 0.025; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους; strongly-marked guide-lines.

Date: CE 59

Findspot: Area of Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded; found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum (Inv. no. 32:69)

Interpretive

(ἔτους) πθ´ Ἐπιφὶ
ε´ Μναϲιὼ
Θευχρήϲτω
[(ἐτῶν)] α´

Diplomatic

L ΠΘΕΠΙΦΙ
ΕΜΝΑϹΙΩ
ΘΕΥΧΡΗϹΤΩ
[]Α

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 89, Epeiph 5, Mnasio (scil. daughter) of Theuchrestos aged [?]1

Commentary

Line 4: Aged 1, 11 or a multiple of 10 + 1.

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 34 and fig. 69, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1718
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II. 25)