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P.50. Funerary inscription

Description: Triangular-headed funerary stele of limestone (w: 0.28 x h: 0.58 x d: 0.19).
Text: Inscribed on the face of the stele.
Letters: 0.02 - 0.025; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First century BCE - third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: lying upon the wall, probably re-used, near the West Gate: found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1959).

Interpretive

(ἔτουϲ) γ´
Κόϲμοϲ
δημοϲιω-
νικὸϲ (ἐτῶν) κ-
5β´

Diplomatic

L Γ
ΚΟϹΜΟϹ
ΔΗΜΟϹΙΩ
ΝΙΚΟϹ L Κ
5Β

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3, Kosmos, slave of the publicani, aged 22.

Commentary

Lines 3-4: presumably 'belonging to the Publicani'.

Bibliography: Mentioned Reynolds, 1990, 72, n.34
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).