Description:
Limestone
column; the surface, including the inscriptions, had been covered with stucco.
Text: Inscribed on the drum.
Letters: First century CE: line 1, 0.07; line 2, 0.04.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
re-used in room B of the house adjoining the Villa of the Four Seasons; found in 1957
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Commentary
On the building see Kraeling, 138f. This may name the donor of the column; but it is unsafe to date the building on the assumption that the column was originally designed for its present position. Texts of this kind are frequently found in an ephebic context.
Line 1: Year 15: Kraeling regards this as an Actian date (17-16 BCE), but a regnal year is equally possible.
Line 2: for the patronymic written below in smaller letters see P.91, P.185, P.186.iii.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 2, and pl. XXIV b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1957, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48707)
Fig. 2. Face (1957, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48708)