Description: Fragement from a sandstone
block with upper and lower edges, and perhaps left side, surviving (w:
0.30 x h:
0.59 x d:
0.24).
Text: Inscribed on one face, in two hands
Letters: i, 0.06-0.07; ii, line 1, 0.19, line 2, 0.16.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Probably a gymnasium
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): Proklos [ . . . ], Diaulos [ . . . ],
(ii): Ia[son . . . ], Mn[- . . .
Commentary
i: While Προκλ[ο- is from a name, the second line is less certain; Δίαυλος is attested as a name, LGPN V2-16671, but this is possibly a reference to a trainee or a victor in the δίαυλος contest.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.20, NS.XVII.20)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds XIII.34)