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P.141. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description: Limestone block (w: 0.55 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.31).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is badly weathered.
Letters: Fourth to fifth century: 0.225.

Date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---] | cura | [---]

Diplomatic

[---] | CURA | [---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Probably from a text describing building work, perhaps from faciendum] cura[vit or cura[nte; but a reference to a procurator or to a curator is also possible.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View in context (Tolmeita 15 B 5)