Description: Fragment of limestone moulded above (w:
0.33 x h:
0.34 x d:
0.18).
Text: Inscribed on one face of a limestone fragment, which has been damaged since it was first published.
Letters: Second century: 0.09; lunte sigma; horizontal bar above the numerals.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
East area, near the former Ufficio Politico; found in 1915.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
1: Κλεοπάτρας Ghislanzoni, 1915; Κλεοπάτρα Σ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 ; the stone has since been damaged.2: [ἐτε]λετεύσεν ιθ΄ Ghislanzoni, 1915 so Oliverio; the stone has since been damaged, but it seems not impossible that the line should have read: ἐτε]λεύτησεν L θ΄, died aged 9.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
- Cleopatra - morì (di anni) 19.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Kleopatra [ . . . ] died (scil. at) 19, or aged 9.
Commentary
The stone has been damaged since its first publication.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915, 153 no. 4, whence SEG 9.412, PHI 324261; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 530 (54), whence SEG 9.405, PHI 324254
Text constituted from: Transcription and previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.25, NS.XVII.25)