Description:
White marble
moulding
(w:
0.64 x h:
0.08 x d:
0.023)
Text: Inscribed twice, on the scotia (i) and on the fillet (ii) below.
A wreath with pendent ribbons and a palm branch roughly incised on either side of i.
Letters: Roughly cut: i: ave. 0.035; square sigma and omega; L for ἔτους; superscript bars above the figure and the abbreviated praenomen
in line 1; ii: 0.02.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Found in 1935 in the West Church.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
French translation
Translation source: AE
L'an 20, Marcus Sestius Marcianus, l'ami de tous.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 20. Marcus Sestius Markianos, friend of all.
Commentary
Here, and in P.65, P.77, the wreaths and palms probably indicate an ephebic victor.
i.2: For 'friend of all' compare P.69, iii and P.316, and see on P.22
Bibliography: i: Reynolds, 1996, Tolmeita 2 and plate XV.b, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, AE 1996.1666, SEG 46.2216
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).