Description:
Limestone
base in the form of a column (diameter h:
1.09 x diam.:
c. 0.58) with moulding at the top and bottom and a further band of moulding 0.085 below top moulding.
Text: Inscribed between the top and second moulding, and below the latter (height 0.88); leaves at the beginning and end of each
line and two below the text.
Letters: 0.035-0.04; alpha with crooked cross bad; w shaped omega; square sigma.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
to the north of the Street of the Monuments; found in 1915.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum, Room 2.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For G(aios) Ioulios (i.e. G(aius) Julius) Epineikos, hero, who hears our prayers, G(aios) Ioulios (i.e. G(aius) Julius) Pausanias and Kokkeia (i.e. Cocceia) Thaleia his parents (scil. dedicated this).
Commentary
Line 1: On heroisation of the dead see Dobias-Lalou, art.cit.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915, 153 no. 3, whence SEG 9.411, PHI 324260; mentioned, Dobias-Lalou, 2006, 87 whence SEG 56.2036; further discussion by Dobias-Lalou, 2016b, 170
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Left side (Reynolds XIII.13.2)
Fig. 2. Right side (Reynolds XIII.13.1)
Fig. 3. View from the right side (Reynolds XIII.34)