THE MOST ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS OF TOMIS

The author re-publishes two neglected funerary inscriptions (Mordtmann 1880, no. 2 and 3) not included in the corpora ISM II and VI.2. They date to the Hellenistic period and prove that another tomb stone (ISM II 456 from the first half of the fourth century BC) is not an isolated piece. Although a less developed polis, Tomis produced, therefore, inscriptions even before ca. 100 BC, when several public inscriptions are attested.