Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade, which is badly damaged, with P.271,
P.272, P.273, P.274, P.275.
Text: Inscribed within the triangle of a gabled panel, outlined in relief above the door
(w:
0.54 x h:
0.42); the third line is cut on the lower moulding of the gable, but the main panel was never inscribed.
Letters: Lines 2, 4, 0.04; line 3, 0.025; cursive omega.
Date: First to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1915.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1983
Year 1, Lyka (scil. daughter) of Theudoros, aged 5 years 10 months.
Commentary
Lines 1-2: The name suggests a Jew. The Doric forms in the patronymic are to be noted.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915 119, fig.24; Reynolds, 1983, 6, whence SEG 33.1377, whence PHI 324561.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tolmeita I (NB V.65)