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P.29. List of ?ephebic names

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.155 x h: 0.95 x d: 0.04).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps third century; 0.01; cut between guidelines.

Date: Perhaps third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: near the West Gate; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---] ( vac. 2) Ἄννιος ( vac. 4)[---]
[---] ( vac. 2) Κλαύδιος ( vac. 4)[---]
[---] ( vac. 2) Φλάβιος ( vac. 4)[---]
5[---] ( vac. 2) «Μ»ε( vac. 1)<μ>μιος ( vac. 4)[---]
( vac. 2 lines)

Diplomatic

[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]    ΑΝΝΙΟΣ        [---]
[---]    ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ        [---]
[---]    ΦΛΑΒΙΟΣ        [---]
5[---]    «Μ»Ε  ΜΙΟΣ        [---]
     vacat

Apparatus

4: The initial M is cut over erased AI; after E there is a space, partly occupied by scratches which may represent an abandoned attempt at a cursive M. The intention was doubtless to write Μέμμιος.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Annios (i.e. Annius), Klaudios (i.e. Claudiuss), Phlabios (i.e. Flavius), Memmios (i.e. Memmius).

Commentary

A list of names, probably of ephebes, since there is evidence that there was a Gymnasium nearby

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face