Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade within a tabella ansata in relief (w:
0.42 x h:
0.18) the surface badly worn and in part lost. The last line was read only by Pacho.
Letters: 0.015 - 0.03; cursive epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Probably first century BCE to mid first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, on a pillar of rock left standing in the central area;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΜΥΡΚΟϹ Pacho, 1827 ; Λ : ϹΟΕΑΛΙΟϹ Pacho, 1827; Σ[ωρ]α[ν]ός? CIG, Vol.III2: LΥΗϹΕΝ Pacho, 1827
3: ΥΕΓιιΟΝΥϹΔΥΤ Pacho, 1827; [τ]έ[κν[οι]ς [α]ὐ[τοῦ] CIG, Vol.III
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Markos Soellios (i.e. Marcus Soellius) set this up for himself and his children.
Commentary
The absence of a cognomen suggests a date not much later than the middle first century CE
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5219.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 24)