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P.237. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, to the right of P.235.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door.
Letters: First-second century: line 1, 0.08; line 2, 0.05; line 3, 0.04; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega; two hands.

Date: First - second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry I.b.i, south wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Καλλιβία
ἐτῶν {(ἔτους)} ρ´
Ἀμάραντοϲ ἐτῶν ξ´

Diplomatic

ΚΑΛΛΙΒΙΑ
ΕΤΩΝ L Ρ
ΑΜΑΡΑΝΤΟϹΕΤΩΝΞ

Apparatus

ΚΑΛΑΙ ΙΛ Pacho, 1827; Καλι[τ]ί[α CIG, Vol.III ; ΑΜΑΡΑΝΥΟΕΤ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Kallibia, aged 100.

Amarantos, aged 60.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl.LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX) whence CIG, Vol.III, 5207; corrected, Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 197.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)