Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.61 x depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on one face in two hands: i to the left of ii.
Letters: i. line 1, 0.11, line 2, 0.26; ii. 0.13.
Date: i. Perhaps second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, in the east wall of Room 14, over the entrance to the well shaft; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
i.1: Kraeling omitted this line.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i). Not usefully translatable
(ii). Year 18. Marko[s . . .
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
i.2: These letters are clearly monumental and perhaps indicate a formal text; but epehbic texts vary very widely in quality.
ii: The text was clearly continued onto the next stone.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 44, pl. XXXVI c.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1958, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49730)