Description:
Limestone
stele, with an excrescence at the centre of the upper edge which may have been intended to represent a head (w:
0.25 x h:
0.22 x d:
0.02)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; 0.035; lunate epsilon and sigma; cursive omega and Y-shaped upsilon in line 3; L for ἔτους; strongly marked
guide-lines.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Area of
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
(Inv. no. 694:72)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 10, Pauni 8, Philon, (scil. son) of Dionysios, <aged> 65.
Commentary
Line 4: Presumably "aged 65"; but the first sign is clearly Η and not E.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 35 and fig. 70, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1719
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).