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P.68. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Fragment of a white marble stele (w: 0.10 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.02) inscribed on one face; there are slight traces of shaping above suggestive of a schematic head.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE; 0.02 - 3; square sigma.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: re-used in the West Church; found in 1935/6.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

[---]μίου Ϲ[---]
[---ο]υ̣ Ἀντ̣[ων---]
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Diplomatic

[---]ΜΙΟΥϹ[---]
[---.].ΑΝ.[..---]
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Apparatus

1: e.g., from Μέμμιος or Ῥέμμιος

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Names?, none complete)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. P.68 and P.56 (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.1)

   Fig. 2. Face (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.1)