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P.180. ?Ephebic name

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.57).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: 0.20, cut with very broad trenches.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Late Baths, in the vaulted reservoir; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Text

(ἔτους) ι̣η̣´ Λυ[---]

Diplomatic

Text

L ..ΛΥ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 18. Ly[-

Commentary

One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 25.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48767)