Description: Sandstone
blocks, too high to measure, in the wall of the North Tower of the West Gate,
inscribed, while in their present position, on the West wall, with
P.8,
P.9P.10,
P.11,
P.12,
P.13,
P.14,
P.15,
P.16.
Text: Graffito on the raised central area of a block in the same row,
and to the right of P.13.
Letters: L for ἔτους; probably three different hands.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, North tower, west wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
iii: Ἑ]ρμαίου Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 Oliverio presents this as a separate line. The patronymic is written in small letters between those of the name.Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Di Ermeo. Anno 12. Ammonio
English translation
Translation by: Editors
i. Year 12.
ii. Year 8.
iii. Year 12: Ammonios (scil. son) of Hermaios.
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
(i). السنة 12. (ii). السنة 8. (iii). السنة 12: أمونيوس (بن) هيرمايوس.
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.1.
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: iii only: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 504 (28), p. 249, whence SEG 9.387, PHI 324236.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
