Description: Part of the left side of a sandstone funerary stele (w:
0.34 x h:
0.48 x d:
0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunk panel (w:
0.30 x h:
0.30).
Letters: Line 1 not measurable; lines 2-5, 0.04; lunate epsilon and sigma; large leaf stops after the first letter of line 3 and the
second of line 4 .
Date: First - fourth century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found in 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Musem
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ]Arimmas [ . . . ] Paulinos [ . . . ] Ammianos [ . . .
Commentary
Possibly Γ(άϊε) but since the name which follows does not seem to be a nomen, it may be a figure - 3 - concluding a date; line 1 could then be interpreted as ἔ[τους…] and line 2 as part of the name of the month.
Since the names are in the vocative an imperative, such as εὔψυχι, must have concluded the text.
Bibliography: Unpublished
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds XIII.39)