Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.37 x d:
0.59).
Text: Inscribed on one face, in perhaps four hands: i at upper left,
ii below i;
iii to the lower left.
Letters: 0.055;
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), in the south wall; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
ii.1: ].Ι ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ Kraeling, 1962
ii.2: ]Ι.ΟΝΙΟΣ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) ?of Pollio
(ii) Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) [?Am]monios (scil. son) of B]outis
(iii) Year 10. Gari[ . . . P(oplios) (i.e. P(ublius)) [. . .
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
iii.3: this could be a separate text, but for the patronymic written below in slightly smaller letters see P.91, P.185, P.186.iii.
Bibliography: ii only: Kraeling, 1962, 32.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48769)