Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade with inscriptions
P.262, P.263,
P.264, P.265,
P.266.
Text: Inscribed above the door, below P.263, in a sunk tabella ansata (w:
0.97 x h:
0.23); lines 2 and 3 impinge on the right ansa.
Letters: Probably second century CE; 0.035; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: Γ. Ιούλιοϲ Ϲτ : ΓΙΟΥΑΙΟϹϹΓ Pacho, 1827; ΠΟΥΛΙΕϹΤ Smith-Porcher, 1864; ΓΙΟΥΛΙΕϹΤ Robinson, 19132: καὶ τὰν ἐξέδραν : ΚΑΙΠΑΝΕΞΕΔΙΑΝ Pacho, 1827; ΚΑΠΑΝΕΣΟΔΙΑΝ Smith-Porcher, 1864
3: ΕΞΙΔΙΝ Pacho, 1827
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Gaio Giulio Stefano costruì dalle fondamenta il recesso (questa tomba) e l'esedra ed il peribolo, a proprie spese, per sè e per i propri figli.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
G(aios) Ioulios (i.e. G(aius) Julius) Stephanos built from the foundations this enclosure and recess and the surrounding wall at his own expense for himself and his children
Commentary
There is a small court with a rock-cut wall in front of the tomb entrance
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 pl. LXXVI and Letronne p. 402, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5235; Smith-Porcher, 1864, 67, pl. 54, drawing only; corrected, Robinson, 1913, 198; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 486 (10), fig.72, whence SEG 9.369, PHI 324218.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVI)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.14)