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P.351. Fragmentary ephebic text

Description: Fragment, probably from the bottom of a marble panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face within an area defined by an incised line (w: 0.12 x h: 0.16). The letters are only fairly regular and the cutting is very amateurish.
Letters: 0.015 roughly cut

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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[c. 5 - 6]ΟΥ
[c. 3 - 4]λανου
[..] Λ(ούκιος) Βειβιά-
[ρ]ιος Νεική-
5φορος φί-
λοι

Diplomatic

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[c. 5 - 6]ΟΥ
[c. 3 - 4]ΛΑΝΟΥ
[··]ΛΒΕΙΒΙΑ
[.]ΙΟΣΝΕΙΚΗ
5ΦΟΡΟΣΦΙ
ΛΟΙ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ? and] Loukios Beibarios (i.e. Lucius Vivarius) Nikephoros, friends

Commentary

Despite the poor cutting the text appears to be formal; the use of φίλοι in lines 5-6 suggests an ephebic document (see further on P.9, P.35)

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).