Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.57).
Text: Inscribed on one face in three hands: i along the upper edge;
ii across the centre, with the final letter below the line; iii above ii; iv unclear, perhaps erased.
Letters: i. 0.04-0.06; ii. 0.06-0.09; iii. 0.06; cursive omega in i.
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: ΕΡΩΤΟΥΣ Kraeling, 1962 reading the initial letter of iii into the name. ; ]ΙΑΡΙ[ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i) Year 15. Lykos (scil. son) of Nikasion
(ii) Year 18. Eros (scil. son) of Eros
(iii) Not translatable
(iv) Bed-fellow/s
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
iv: The monogram is not entirely legible; for its use see discussion on P.3
Bibliography: i and ii only: Kraeling, 1962, 33, pl. LIV C..
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48768)