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 a triangular-headed panel outlined in relief (w:
0.39 x h:
0.60), to the right of the door.
Letters: Line 1, 0.04; lines 2, 3, 0.03; cursive epsilon, square sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: ΣΙΛΛΒΙΛ Pacho, 1827; [Φλα]βί[α] CIG, Vol.III; ΣΙΛΛΙΑ Smith-Porcher, 18642: ΔΙUϹΙΟϹΛ Pacho, 1827; ΛΩΣΙΟΣΛ Smith-Porcher, 1864
3: IMA Smith-Porcher, 1864
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
Salvia Dosithea, 48 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Salbia Dosithea, aged 48.
Commentary
On the name, possibly Jewish, see Lüderitz.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXVII, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5238; Smith-Porcher, 1864, 67, pl. 54, drawing only; Robinson, 1913, from Norton, p.198; Ghislanzoni, 1915 p.119, fig.24, whence Applebaum, 1954 p.45, 24; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 33.c, whence SEG 33.1470, PHI 324644.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVII)
Fig. 2. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.69)