Petrie, William M. Flinders: Koptos (London, 1896)

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K0PT0S.

I do not know of an example south of St. Mark's at
Alexandria (Gayet, p. 13). The foundations are built
with blocks of the Ptolemaic and Roman temple.

44. It only remains to mention the various minerals
found in the ruins ; from the nearness to the eastern
mountains an unusual variety occurs here, Ouartz,
crystal and milky, Hornstone, red Jasper, green Jasper
Breccia, Beryl, Mica, Actinolite, Obsidian, Pumice,
Steatite, Red Granite, White Granite, Red, Green
and Gray Porphyry, Slate, Calcite, Lime Breccia,
Red Haematite, Red Ochre, Iron Slag, Chrysocolla,
Sulphide of Copper, and Realgar; beside Red and
White Coral.

CHAPTER VI.

THE CLASSICAL INSCRIPTIONS.

By D. G. Hogarth, M.A.

NO. I.

.....©]e&> f^eji(TT(p

.....]^°[? 7rpocr]TaT7/?

......] @ea? "IcrtSo?

.......] fiecropr] iTray(ofiivaiv) a.

45. On a block of black basalt, now in University
College, London.

To . . . most high god . . . mus, steward of
the . . . goddess Isis . . . in the month Mesori
{July—August) on the 1st of the intercalated
days dedicates this.

The style of the lettering, and the presence of iota
adscript, suggest the late Ptolemaic period. The
year was perhaps inscribed in the lost portion of 1. 4.
For the intercalated days, see C. I. G. 4879,
4825, etc., etc.

1'he name of the god cannot be supplied with any
certainty, but it was probably a short name, for
neither in 1. 3 nor 1. 4 does much seem to be lost.
Perhaps the god was Pan = Min of Coptos.

The title trpoaToay]^ is found not infrequently.
Cf. C. I. G. 4711, 4714 ; and Boeckh's introduction to
Egyptian inscriptions, Ibid., vol. iii.

. No. II,

(*Etoj;9) j3' 2e(p)ovlov TaX/3a AvTOKparopo*;
Kat'crapo? 2\eftacrTov
fi7]v6<i veov aefiaarrov

KCb .

46. On a block of limestone, now in Oxford.

(This was erected) in the 2nd year of Servius
Galba, Emperor Caesar Augustus, on the 2\st of
the month Neosebastos (November).

Galba began his reign on June 9th, 68 A.D.
Therefore he would enter on a second year, according
to Egyptian reckoning, on August 29th following
( = 1st of Thoth). The month Neosebastos is the
equivalent of Athyr ( = October—'November), and
occurs often enough in papyri (v. Fiihrer durch
die Ausstellung d. pap. Rainer, p. 66, etc.) ; but,
so far as I know, it has not been found before in an
inscription.

No. III.

Imp(erator) Caesar Domitianus Aug(ustus) *
Germanicus Pontif(ex) Maximus trib(uniciae)
potest(atis) consul XV censor perpetuus p(ater)
p(atriae)

pontem a solo fecit.

[.........._...........J

O. Licinnio Ancotio Proculo praef(ecto)

castr(orum),
L. Antistio Asiatico praef(ecto) Beren(ices),
cura C. Iuli Magni (centurionis) leg(ionis) III

Cyr(enaicae).

47. On a slab of limestone, bought at Coptos, now
in the British Museum.

The Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Ger-
manicus, supreme pontiff, invested with tribuuician
potver, consul for the 1 $th time, perpetual censor,
father of his country, built up the bridge from its
foundations.

..........being governor of Egypt;

Quintus Licinnius Ancotius Proculus being pre-
fect of the camps; Lucius Antistius Asiaticus
being prefect of the Red Sea slope. The erection
was supervised by Caius Julhis Magnus, centurion
of the Third Cyrenaic Legion.

(This will appear in C. I. L. III. Suppl. 3,
No. 13,580.)

The number of the consulship fixes this to the
year 90 A.D. The bridge in question must have been
thrown over the large irrigation canal which, we may
be sure, passed just west of Coptos in Roman times,
as it passes now.

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