Description:
Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the entrance to the main tomb-chamber within a sunk panel, which is approximately rectangular
(w:
0.39 -0.45 x h:
0.36)
Letters: Probably first century CE; ave. 0.05; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Wadi Ziwana, on the east bank, just north of the remains of the northernmost of the two bridges;
found in 1970.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1970).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 7, Phaophi 29: Epagathos made a tomb for himself and his children
Commentary
Lines 4-5 were elided in the first publication
Bibliography: Bazama-Reynolds, 1978-1979, 261 (upper) and pl. LXXXVII.b, whence SEG 37.1715.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).