Description:
Sandstone
block (w:
0.061 x h:
1.28, depth not measurable)
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face which was used in paving and is badly worn.
Letters: Fourth century; 0.048.
Date: CE 293-306
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
House of the Triapsidal Hall, re-used as a paving stone in a room in complex 3;
found in 1962.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Unknown
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For Diocletian and Maximian and Constantius and Maximian [ . . . ] 36 [? miles
Commentary
Probably a line above, with DDDDNNNN, is lost. The stone is too worn in line 5 for certainty on the title – but aeternis augustis (cf. ILS 644) is possible. Nothing can be read after line 5 so that there is no meens of telling whether Constantius and Maximian (Galerius) were still Caesars or had been promoted to be Augusti. The text as it stands can only be dated between 293 when Constantius and Galerius became Caesars and the death of Constantius in 306.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).