Description:
Limestone
block (w:
0.90 x h:
0.35 x depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face on a coating of stucco.
Letters: Fourth century: 0.025; rubricated.
Date: 367-383 CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
House of Paulus, Room 8, re-used in the base of the west wall; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . Gratian . . .
Commentary
The Emperor Gratian, 367-383; perhaps also in P.118. This text provides a terminus post quem for the wall. It was presumably part of an inscription like P.148, P.136 and P.137, recording the late fourth to fifth century rehabilitation of the Street of the Monuments.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 17 and p. 26.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. View in context (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49563)