Description: Five fragments of a panel of Phrygian blue-streaked marble. Fragment a is made of two fragments
stuck together (w:
0.21 x h:
0.135 x d:
0.018);
fragment b measures w:
0.10 x h:
0.10 x d:
0.015;
fragment c w:
0.12 x h:
0.11 x d:
0.015;
fragment d w:
0.05 x h:
0.065 x d:
0.015.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.02; cursive omega, cursive mu, lunate sigma, lunate epsilon.
Date: Third to fourth centuries CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
Interpretive
a
------
[---]ΝΙ̣Ϲ̣Ο̣[---]
[--- πλ]ημμελουμεν[---]
[---]Τ̣Ι τὰϲ μὲν θρηϲκεί̣α̣[ϲ ---]
[---]⟦α̣ν̣ου⟧ καὶ ἑνὸϲ ἑκάϲτ̣[ου] καϲι̣[---]
5[---] πάνταϲ τοῖϲ ( vac. 5) [---]
[---]Ι̣[...]Ι̣ΟΝ βου[---]
------ b
------
[---]ου λοιπο̣[υ---]
[---] ϲυνωμο̣[---]
[---]ϲα ὅ τι ἂν [---]
[---]υ̣κτο[---]
------ c
------
[---] Ι̣ΑΝΑΜΙ̣Ζ̣ [---]
[---]Ϲ ἱλάϲκεϲθα[ι ---]
[---]θαι τοὺϲ θε̣[ούϲ? ---]
[---]μ̣ένων [---]
------ d
------
[---]Μ̣ΩΙ̣[---]
[---]ταγμ[---]
[---]ΩΝΑ[---]
[---]Α̣[---]
------ e
------
[---]ΛΕϹΑ[---]
[---]ϹΥΝΚΙ[---]
[---]ΙΝΙϹϹ[---]
[---]λων πλημμελουμέν[ων? ---]
------
Diplomatic
a
------
[---]Ν...[---]
[---..]ΗΜΜΕΛΟΥΜΕΝ[---]
[---].ΙΤΑϹΜΕΝΘΡΗϹΚΕ..[.---]
[---]⟦..ΟΥ⟧ΚΑΙΕΝΟϹΕΚΑϹ.[..]ΚΑϹ.[---]
5[---]ΠΑΝΤΑϹΤΟΙϹ [---]
[---].[···].ΟΝΒΟΥ[---]
------ b
------
[---]ΟΥΛΟΙΠ.[.---]
[---]ϹΥΝΩΜ.[---]
[---]ϹΑΟΤΙΑΝ[---]
[---].ΚΤΟ[---]
------ c
------
[---].ΑΝΑΜ..[---]
[---]ϹΙΛΑϹΚΕϹΘΑ[.---]
[---]ΘΑΙΤΟΥϹΘ.[...---]
[---].ΕΝΩΝ[---]
------ d
------
[---].Ω.[---]
[---]ΤΑΓΜ[---]
[---]ΩΝΑ[---]
[---].[---]
------ e
------
[---]ΛΕϹΑ[---]
[---]ϹΥΝΚΙ[---]
[---]ΙΝΙϹϹ[---]
[---]ΛΩΝΠΛΗΜΜΕΛΟΥΜΕΝ[..---]
------
Apparatus
a.1: ϲ might be ε; ο might be ϲ, ε b.1: Perhaps δ]οῦλοι or τ]οῦ λοιπο[ῦ b.2: Perhaps ϲυνωμο[σία] or συνωμό[ται c.1: The final letter might be Ξ
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): . . . ] having been damaged [ . . . ] of the worship [ . . . ] and of each one [ . . . ] all to the [ . . . (b): . . . ]remainder [ . . . ] ?association [ . . . ] whatever [ . . .. (c): . . . ] to expiate [ . . . ] ?the gods [ . . . (d): (Not usefully translatable). (e): . . . ] damaged [ . . .
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. From left:
P.165.a,
P.204,
P.54 (Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 2.
P.165, fragments from left to right: b, a, c (Reynolds III.19)
