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P.194. ?Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.37 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.57).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: 0.05; lunate sigma.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais, Street of the Monuments, Late Baths, Room 7, in the north entry wall of the plunge bath; found in 1957
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]Ι̣ Τ̣αρχ[---]
[---] Κάρνιϲ [---]
[---]ΑΛΜΑΝΤ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]..ΑΡΧ[---]
[---]ΚΑΡΝΙϹ[---]
[---]ΑΛΜΑΝΤ[---]

1: ]. . . Α . Χ[ Kraeling, 1962

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ]?Tarch[- . . ] Karnis [ . . .

Commentary

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

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 42, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.589.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).