Description: Building block of sandstone (w:
1.15 x h:
0.23 x d:
0.75).
The sides and back are untrimmed so that it was probably a building block used in the structure.
It may have referred to a statue placed in the niche in the wall above its present position.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second-third century: line 1, 0.055; line 2, 0.05; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Odeon; found in 1960.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Unknown.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
M(arkos) Oulpios Kominios (i.e. M(arcus) Ulpius Cominius) from his private means (scil. set up) the statue for the Fatherland.
Bibliography: Fabbricotti, 1985, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1028, SEG 35.1729
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Reynolds, XII.30-31)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XII.21)