Description: Sandstone
blocks, too high to measure, in the South tower of the West Gate,
inscribed, while in their present position, with
P.25,
P.26,
P.27.
Text: On the raised central area of the block.
Letters: No description.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, South tower, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
ii.1: written as a φιλ monogram.English translation
Translation by: Editors
i. Hyp[---]
ii. Philippion friend of [---]
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.1.
ii. line 1: for the use of the φιλ abbreviation by ephebes see on P.9; for the monogram see P.26, P.40, P.41, P.45, P.368, T.100, T.110, T.143, T.144, T.153, T.156, T.211, and apparently T.14.
ii. line 2, the monogram presumably stands for the name of the second boy.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text