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P.232. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door (no panel)
Letters: Around 0.10. Very irregular

Date: 28/29 CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.a.ii.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θν´ Ταῦρος Ποπιουμα (ἐτῶν) ι´

Diplomatic

L ΘΝΤΑΥΡΟΣΠΟΠΙΟΥΜΑ L Ι

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 59, Tauros Popiouma, aged 10.

Commentary

The name may suggest a Jew.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 89)