Description:
Sandstone
block (w:
0.63 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.48).
One of a group inscribed with P.127, P.128, P.129,
P.130, P.131, P.132, P.133,
P.134, P.135.
Text: Graffiti on one face; probably three different hands
Letters: l. 1, 0.06; line 2, 0.09; line 3, truncated; lunate sigma, square sigma, four bar sigma.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments, north side, re-used in late buildings; found in 1935/6.
Original location: ?A gymnasium.
Last recorded location:
Lying loose in the street.
Apparatus
3: There are traces of a patronymic cut in small letters (ι, κ) between those of the name.4: Α Γ is cut within the O.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
- . . . -]onios; [ . . .] Ioulios (i.e. Julius) (scil. son) of [ . . -]llos
Commentary
Lines 3 and 4: For the patronymic written in small letters within and between the letters of the names, typical of ephebic inscriptions, see C.61, C.123, C.124, and many examples at Ptolemais: P.2, P.11, P.13, P.14, P.69, P.124, P.133, P.134, P.178, P.182, P.185, P.190, and cf P.200.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
front "Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.8, NB V.8)")
