Description: Sandstone
blocks, too high to measure, in the North Tower of the West Gate,
inscribed, while in their present positions, on the North wall: P.1, P.2,
P.3, P.4, P.5,
P.6,
P.7.
Text: Graffito on the raised central area of the block immediately to the right of P.1
Letters: L for ἔτους; ligature in ii; two hands.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, North Tower, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i: N Pacho, 1827 , so CIG; omitted by Oliverio and consequently SEG.ii: ΑΥΑΟΣ Pacho, 1827 ; The patronymic, which is written in small letters between and within those of the name, was omitted by Pacho and Oliverio.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
(ii). Anno 12. Aulo
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(ii). Year 12: Aulus (scil. son) of Pelidas.
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
(ii) السنة 12، أيوليوس (بن) بليداس.
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.1
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.91, P.124, P.133, P.134, P.178, P.182, P.185, P.190, and compare P.200.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXIV whence CIG, Vol.III, 5193; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 505 (29), p. 249; whence SEG 9.388, PHI 324237.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
