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P.399. Funerary inscription

Description: Marble block, perhaps a tomb-cover, damaged above and cracked down the centre (w: 0.79 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.05; square sigma, w-shaped omega, reversed Ν; ivy leaves in lines 2, 3.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: precise findspot unknown; found before 1936, when it was published with a group of inscriptions from Tolmeita, though photographed as in Barke musem.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Barke Museum (1936)

Interpretive

Κλαύ[δι]οϲ
((leaf)) Ϲεραπίων
ἐτῶν ((leaf)) λε´

Diplomatic

ΚΛΑΥ[..]ΟϹ
ϹΕΡΑΠΙΩΝ
ΕΤΩΝ ΛΕ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Claudio Serapion, di anni 35.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Klaudios (i.e. Claudius) Serapion, aged 35.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 536 (60), p. 257, pl. CVII, fig.101, whence SEG 9.409, PHI 324258.
Text constituted from: Read from the photograph (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).