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P.368. ?Ephebic text

Description: Sandstone block(w: 1.20 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.35).
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.1

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded.
Original location: probably a gymnasium
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

[---]ΔΙΑΡΕΕΥ(ΦΙΛΟΣ)ΟΡΗΜΕ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΔΙΑΡΕΕΥ ΦΙΛ ΟΡΗΜΕ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

?Not usefully translatable

Commentary

The letter Φ has been written (converted) as the ephebic monogram for φίλος, φίλοι, for which see on P.26, upside down to the rest of the text.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).