Tomb for Z[--] and Entolia (JOP0116)

Dublin Core

Title

Tomb for Z[--] and Entolia (JOP0116)

Description

Fragment of an marble tombstone, inscribed in Greek, for Z[--] and his sister Entolia from Ptolemais. From Joppa/Jaffa, dated between the 3rd-6th c. CE (JOP0116)

Source

Publisher

CIIP3: 2246

Format

Marble

Language

Identifier

JOP0116

Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata

Diplomatic

ΘΗΚΗΖ+[--]
ΟΥΥΙΟΥΙΟ[--]
ΠΤΕΛΕΜ[--]
ΟΥΕΝΤΟΛΙ[--]
ΛΦΙΣΑΥ[--]

Translation

Tomb of Z... son of Io.., from Ptolemais, (and) of his sister Entolia

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP3

Translation Constituted From

CIIP3

Description

Fragmentary five-line Greek inscription, broken at right and bottom

Findspot

Joppa/Jaffa

Name 1

Name 2

Name 3

Selected Bibliography

CIIP3=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume III: South Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of
the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.125-127, no.2246.

Citation

“Tomb for Z[--] and Entolia (JOP0116),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed March 28, 2024, https://www.wireproject.org/items/show/181.

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