Description: Fragment of a marble
panel (w:
0.17 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.02).
Text: Inscribed on both faces; P.81 is on the reverse
Letters: 0.05, rather rough; trinagular stops
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
in the fill over the Villa of the Four Seasons.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus) holding tribunician power] for the fifth time, f[ather of his country . . .
Commentary
These lines seem to contain part of the title of an emperor in the nominative - recording some intervention or action.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 10, recto
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49626)