Description: Fragment of a moulded marble
base (w:
0.25 x h:
0.12 x d:
0.17)
Text: Inscribed i on a lower moulding, below a dressed face; ii on the opposite face.
On the dressed face above i almost nothing survives but the base of a K in the last line.
Letters: i, clear but irregular; ii, 0.025 deeply cut.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Probably from the gymnasium
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(a): . . . D]emetrio[s . . .
(b): . . . of K]ephalos [ . . . ] ?Year 2 Pto[lemaio- . . .
Commentary
Since the lettering of both i and ii is rough enough to suggest informal texts, the stone probably came from the gymnasium, and bore a formal text, now missing, which may well have been an ephebic dedication to Hermes and Herakles.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face i (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V.53)
Fig. 2. Face i (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.3)
Fig. 3. Face ii (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.2)
Fig. 4. Face ii (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I (NB V.52)