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P.138. List of names, perhaps colonists?

Description: Sandstone block, perhaps from the right side of a composite stele (w: 0.43 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.49).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is badly worn. The layout suggests that this is the second of two columns.
Letters: 0.02 - 0.025

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais, Street of the Monuments; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]+[---]
[---] Iul(ius) Caeselin[u]ṣ
[---] A(ulus) Egn(atius) Aelianụ[s]
[---] Iul(ius) Ma[x]iṃus
5[---] L(ucius) Ann(ius) Athịc̣ṭụṣ
[---] P̣(ublius) Lạcuṭạṇịụṣ
[---] Ap̣[c. 8]us
[---]as
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
10Ann(ius) [---]lus
[---]ịạḍ[es]
[---]ẹnas
[---]
[--- Her]ạc̣ḷị[des]
[---] Ạṇṇ(ius) Amyntas
15[---] L[.. ? ..] Ṃạrcelḷus
[---] Aemil(ius) Quintus
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Diplomatic

[---]·[---]
[---]IULCAESELIN[.].
[---]AEGNAELIAN.[.]
[---]IULMA[.]I.US
5[---]LANNATH.....
[---].L.CU......
[---]A.[········]US
[---]AS
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
10ANN[---]LUS
[---]...[..]
[---].NAS
[---]
[---...]....[...]
[---]...AMYNTAS
15[---]L[.. ? ..]..RCEL.US
[---]AEMILQUINTUS
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English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] Julius Caseilinus, Aulus Egnatius Aelianus, Julius Maximus, Lucius Annnius Athictus, Publius Lacutanius, Ap[ - ]us, [ . . . ] Annius [ . . . -]lus, [ . . . -]iades, [ . . . -]enas, [ . . . Her]acli[des], Annius Amyntas, L[ - ] Marcellus, Aemilius Quintus, [ . . .

Commentary

The names might be of priests, ephebes or civil officials, or perhaps of colonists.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face

   Fig. 2. Face

   Fig. 3. Face: from line 3

   Fig. 4. Face: from line 3