Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade.
Letters: Probably first century BCE, 0.13; lunate epsilon, square sigma. .
Date: Probably first century BCE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Quarry I.c, north wall;
first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Messenio di Filocle.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Messenios (scil. son) of Philokles.
Commentary
All details from Oliverio.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIG, Vol.III, 5217; Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 487 (11), whence SEG 9.373, PHI 324222.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)