Description: Triangular-headed limestone
stele (w:
0.25 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.08).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably first century CE; line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.03; line 3, 0.025; line 4, 0.02.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Area of
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
(Inv. no. 424)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For Caius Papirius Diomedes, her friend, Cornelia Polla (scil. erected this)
Commentary
Perhaps a reference to informal "marriage" between the pair.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987Catalogo 33 and fig. 68, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.57)