Fragmentary decree
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century BCE - first century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] [...]ι ἀεὶ [...]ουσαν [...]κἰου Ἀπίω νος [...] Kάρνιος τὸν ε [...] δεδογμένοις ε [...]ους τὸ ψήφισμα [...] ἀναγράψαι δὲ καὶ τοὺς [...] εἰς στήλην λίθου μαρμαρίνου παρὰ τὴ [...] λευκαὶ ρ κ

Translation

. . . ] of -kios Apion [ . . . ] of Karnis [ . . . ] having been agreed [ . . . ] the decree [ . . . ] to inscribe and [ . . . ] on a stele of [marble] stone beside the image. Votes in favour, 120.

Commentary

The text of a decree, either of the city of Ptolemais or possibly of a group within it such as the Jewish politeuma. The fragmentary names in lines 3/4 are probably from the genealogy of the man honoured.

Lines. 6ff. provide for recording the text, including its inscription on a stele whose stone was prescribed, and for its erection beside a statue which, it is implied, was also voted earlied in the decree; the place in which they were both to be erected must also have been mentioned. For the formula prescribing erection of a stele beside a statue c.f. Inscr. Del. 1497 bis, 1517, 1523, available at PHI 63933, 63953, 63959.

Line 9. εἰκόνα: The selection of this word for deletion suggests a policy which might be associable with purist Jews, possibly in the Flavian period after the arrival of refugees from Palestine rather than during the violent outburst of CE 115; it would happen the more naturally if the monument did in fact record activity by the Jewish politeuma and stood in a specifically Jewish meeting place.

Line 10: For this formula see B.75 and B.76 (both decrees of Jewish groups), M.245 and IGCyr066900.