Description: Triangular-headed stele of brown limestone recomposed from two pieces (w:
0.32 x h:
0.69 x d:
0.08).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunk panel (w:
0.27 x h:
0.38). Lines 1-4 elegantly laid out; lines 5-6 added in a different and irregular hand.
Letters: 0.03 – 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; lunate sigma, cursive omega in lines 5 - 6.
Date: First-second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1983
Year 14, Tertia (scil. daughter) of Ioses, aged 40; Ioses, aged 25
Commentary
Lines 3, 5: The name indicates a Jewish family.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 8, whence SEG 33.1379, PHI 324563).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.23, NS.XVII.23)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XIII.38)