Description: Sandstone block (w:
0.65 x h:
0.65 x d:
0.55).
Text: Inscribed on one face, in three hands: i upper left corner; ii upper right corner, with iii below; iv lower edge
Letters: i. 0.04-0.09; ii. 0.04; iii. 0.06; iv. 0.12; lunate epsilon in iii., square omega in the patronymic of iv.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), in the south west corner; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
i.1: ]ΝΚΙΟΣ Kraeling, 1962
iv: ]ΑΡΧΟΣ[ Kraeling, 1962 The patronymic was cut in small letters within and between those of the name.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Loukios (i.e. Lucius) [ ?(scil. son) of Lou]kios (i.e. Lu]cius)
(ii) (Not translatable)
(iii) Year 1. E[ . . .
(iv) -]parchos (scil. son) of -]on
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
i. Probably Λούκιος or Λεύκιος: for the patronymic written below in smaller letters see P.91, P.185, P.186.iii.
ii: The text probably began on an upper block.
iv.2: 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.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 29.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1958, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49572)