Description:
Limestone
block
(w:
1.14 x h:
0.27 x d:
0.41).
Text:
Inscribed on the exposed face of the block.
Letters: First to second centuries CE: 0.135; ivy leaf stops.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
re-used in the wall a little north of the West Gate; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
T(itus) Flavius Au[---]
Commentary
On the walls see Kraeling, op.cit. p. 52 f. and on the relevance of this inscription to the date of their present form, p. 61 f.; he associates its re-use with the rebuilding of this stretch of the curtain after a remodelling of the West Gate, perhaps in the third century.
Perhaps Au[g(usti) lib(ertus) ...], but AV may also be the opening of a cognomen, e.g. Auctus; if the former, the text is new evidence for an office of the imperial civil service at Ptolemais.
Bibliography: Mentioned as unpublished, Applebaum, 1951, 183; published Kraeling, 1962, 1-62 and pl. LII A. Mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 95.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Chicago, 49625.)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds)