Description:
Marble
base for a group of statuary, probably Dionysus and a Satyr.
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w:
1.20 x h:
0.10) on a rough surface.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Second-third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Odeon, in the corridor behind the cavea; found in 1959
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
M(arkos) Oulpios Kominios (i.e. M(arcus) Ulpius Cominius) from his private means for the Fatherland.
Bibliography: Published Fabbricotti, 1985 whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1028; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 101
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).