Funerary inscription
created: From previous publications (Reynolds)
source date: 48 CE
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Bibliography

[...], 73, from Norton, with a drawing, whence [...], I.5914, [...], 18, , [...], 436-439. From all these [...], 77, whence [...] 27.1159, [...], 4.

ἔτουϲ ημ Φαμενὼτ κγ Βερενείκα δημοϲιωνῶν ἐτῶν ε

Apparatus

[^a1: at 3: δημοϲίων ων | om.]

[^a2: at 4: (ἔτους) | om.]

Translations

(Jahr) 78, 23.Pharmuthi (?); Bereneika der Steuereinnehmer, 4 (Jahre)

Year 78, Phamenoth 23: Berenika slave of the Roman company of tax-collectors, aged 5.

Commentary

Probably 78 of the Actian era, Phamenoth or Phamenouthi 23 = 19th March or 18th April, CE 48.

Applebaum regarded the child as Jewish. Her name alone is hardly sufficient evidence, but seven-branched candlesticks have been recorded in this cemetery and A.62 certainly contains Jewish names.

This is the only epigraphic evidence for publicani at Apollonia; they may have been concerned with public estates in the area, (see nos. A.25, A.50 and A.51 for estates in the immediate neighborhood, at any rate until the time of Vespasian, or with taxation, especially the collection of harbor-dues.