Description: Three sandstone blocks, probably from an architrave; one complete, one from a right end and one from a left end,
all originally 2.12. Oliverio recorded a fourth block, illegible, which was later used for informal texts, P.130.
Text: Inscribed on one side of the blocks. The end of the name of Honorius and the beginning of the following Τ survive on the second
block;
the T is on the right edge of the block and cannot be associated with the N in the next surviving letter group which is cut
close to the left edge of its block; at least one block must
have come between them.
Letters: Fourth - fifth century: 0.29; shallow and flat, with no seriphs; lunate sigma; ΦΦΛΛ for imperial nomina.
Date: CE 395-402
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments, north side, re-used in late buildings;
found in 1935
Original location: Perhaps from the façade of the Late Baths
Last recorded location:
Lying in the street.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
(essendo degli ?) (imperatori) Flavi Arcadio ed Onorio, signori (del mondo)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ]of the two Flavii, Arcadius and Honorius [our Lords] and Masters [of the World . . .
Commentary
Arcadius and Honorius were Augusti together 395-402. The work dated in their reign is clearly a continuation of the rehabilitation of the Street of the Monuments begun a few years earlier, see P.122 and P.148, and may be part of the official response to Synesius' plea for help to the province made in the Περὶ Βασιλείας
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 513 (37), p. 252, pl. CII, fig. 91a/b/c, whence SEG 9.365, PHI 324214; discussed Kraeling, 1962a, 80-81 with Plate LIV; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 72
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Left block, face (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48759)
Fig. 2. Right block, face (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48758)