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P.291. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade
Letters: No measurements; lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First century A.D

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry III, south-east of the Hellenistic mausoleum; first recorded in 1910.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1910).

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι( vac. 1)η´
Ναϲ-
κίω
(ἐτῶν) ιγ´

Diplomatic

L Ι  Η
ΝΑϹ
ΚΙΩ
L ΙΓ

Apparatus

1: Preisigke reported that Keil proposed LI[M]Η, giving Μηνάσκιος or -κίω

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 18: (scil. Tomb) of Naskios, aged 13

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from Norton, 79, whence Sammelbuch, I.5917
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).