Description: Sandstone
block, chipped at the edges (w:
0.55 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.15). Since line 1 is sliced horizontally and the text is incomplete to the left, the block may have been cut down for re-use.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century: line 1, 0.125; lines2,3, 0.032; ;two hands.
Date: First-second cent
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Village, by the seashore, east of the old police station; found in 1969.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i). . . . ] Year 1.
(ii). . . . -]las Iounios [ . . . -]atas, friend of all.
Commentary
These are apparently ephebic graffiti; see on P.35.
Line 2: For 'friend of all' compare P.66, P.69.iii, and see on P.22.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. i and ii (1969, Reynolds NS.I.38)
Fig. 2. ii (1969, Reynolds NS.I.37)