Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably first century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...] LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence [...], 5194; [...], 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; [...], from Norton, 195-6. From these [...], 35; [...], 38; discussed [...], 366-7.

Βασσάραϲ Καίϲαροϲ δούληϲ

Apparatus

Translations

Bassara, Cäsars Sklavin

Tomb of Bassara, slave of Caesar.

Commentary

The name might be Jewish

This implies the presence of an imperial office at Ptolemais, cf. also P.49; see further Struffolino, loc.cit.