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P.403. Funerary inscription

Description: Brown limestone-cut stele, with a round projection above perhaps intended to suggest a head (w: 0.28 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.075)
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: First-third century CE; ave. 0.025; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν; square sigma for digamma.

Date: First-third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Wadi Ziwana, on the east bank; found in 1968.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1968).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) κ´
Μεχὶρ ιϛ´
Ἀπολλών-
ιος Ἰναθα
5(ἐτῶν) πϛ´

Diplomatic

L Κ
ΜΕΧΙΡΙϚ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ
ΙΟΣΙΝΑΘΑ
5 L ΠϚ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 20, Mecheir 16: Apollonios (scil. son) of Inathas aged 86.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).