Description: Fragment of a marble
panel (w:
0.09 x h:
0.095 x d:
0.025) inscribed on one face.
Text: Inscribed on one face of the fragment.
Letters: Perhaps third century: 0.014; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; traces of rubrication.
Date: Perhaps 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
2: the vacant space after Υ is rather long for ἐφηβαρχοῦν-τοϲ/ντων as suggested by Kraeling3: ϲτρα[τηγοῦ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] ephebarch [ . . . Se]stios Stra[- . . . ] father [ . . .
Commentary
Line 4: This is most probably the end of a nomen and the beginning of a cognomen e.g. [Ϲη]ϲτίου Ϲτρά[τωνοϲ] rather than a name and the title στρατηγός as suggested by Kraeling; there is so far no evidence for a στρατηγός in the ephebic organisation at Ptolemais.
Line 5: The father, in the nominative, may have been responsible for the monument.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 5, and pl. LIII A, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.589.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 47974)