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P.391. Funerary inscription

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)

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ((leaf)) ι´ Παῦνε η´
Φίλων
Διονυϲίω
Η ξε´ [...]

Diplomatic

L ΙΠΑΥΝΕΗ
ΦΙΛΩΝ
ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΩ
ΗΞΕ[···]

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

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