Description: Sandstone
blocks, too high to measure, in the North Tower of the West Gate,
inscribed, while in their present position, on the South wall with
P.17,
P.18,
P.19,
P.20,
P.21,
P.22,
P.23,
P.24.
Text: Two adjoining sandstone
blocks to the right of P.21, in situ in the wall of the West Gate,
inscribed with graffiti in their present positions.i. On the raised central area of the first block; ii. On the raised central
area of the first block,
continued and completed on the second; iii. On the raised central area of the second block;
iv. to the right of iii.
Letters: Lunate sigma, lunate epsilon; three hands.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, North tower, south wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i: erasediii.1: erased
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i and iv not usefully translatable)
(ii). Isogonos; friend to all [ . . .
(iii). Machos, friend of [ . . .
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.1.
ii-iii. See T.116 introduction.
The phrase in ii, common on tombstones, seems here to assert a conscious break from the pairing of the two φίλοι as in iii and most of the texts cited on P.9; cf also φίλος πάντων in P.66, P.69.iii, P.316.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
