Description:
Sandstone
block (w:
1.07 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.34)
Text: Incised on one face whose surface is lost at left side and along the upper edge. i is
overcut by ii, and presumably continued on another block: apparently two hands
Letters: i, 0.04; ii, 0.08; lunate and square epsilon, lunate sigma in ii
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
a.1: Perhaps εὖ]γε; but the first surviving letter might be ΤEnglish translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i)On behalf of [ . . . (ii) . . .? slave [ . . . ] strange, fine
Commentary
The texts are clearly informal, probably ephebic; but the content is very unclear..
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.13, NS.XVII.13)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.21, NS.XVII.21)