Description: Part of a panel of Attic marble recomposed from six fragments (w:
0.17 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.02) inscribed on one face.
Text: Inscribed on one face: a a single fragment, b on 5 adjoing fragments.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.035; cursive epsilon, lunate sigma.
Date: Second-third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
in the fill over the Villa of the Four Seasons; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
It is possible that a.3 is the upper elements of b.1 ; ]IN[ Kraeling, 1962b.2: ]ΠΑΤΕ[ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(A reference to a proconsul, and to a legate)
Commentary
b.2: possibly from the legate's cognomen, e.g. Πατερκούλος
b.3: the legate of the proconsul.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 4, 3.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Kraeling n.3 (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 47975)
Fig. 2. Kraeling n.3 (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 47975)
Fig. 3. Kraeling n.4 (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 47976)
Fig. 4. Kraeling n.4 (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 47976)