Description: Limestone block,
w:
0.30 x h:
0.19, depth not measurable.
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: First-second century CE; 0.04. L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: April 88 CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
'Palace of the Dux',
cut down and re-used in the wall of a room in the north-west corner; found in 1959,
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, 2008.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] aged 43. Year 118 [ . . . ] Pharmouthi 2- (20th-29th) [ . . .
Commentary
Almost certainly a funerary stele recording a number of burials.
line 1: The end of one entry giving the age of the dead person (43), and the beginning of another giving the date of the next burial, year 118 of the Actian era = CE 87/8; for the layout cf. A.39.
Line 2: Pharmouthi 20 or 20 + = 15th April or up to nine days later.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 33 and plate LXVI, whence SEG 27.1160.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (Joyce Reynolds, I. 62)