Description: Partly buried wall constructed of sandstone
blocks, inscribed with P.35, P.36, P.37,
P.38, P.39, P.40,
P.41, P.42, P.43,
P.44 and P.45.
Text: Inscribed across two adjoining blocks to the right of
P.37. i, begun on first block and completed on the second; ii, on the first block, between the lines of i; iii, iv and v,
on the second block.
Letters: i, 0.14; ii, 0.05; iii, iv, 0.06; v, 0.12; L for ἔτους; in i, ΣΤΚ monogram for συγκοίτοι; five hands
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
near the West Gate, in an unexcavated area between the city wall and the West church.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
iv: Partly overcut by text i, line 2.v: Probably completed on the next block whose relevant surface is lost.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i). Lysis, Iarthamon, bedfellows
(ii). Makkyr
(iii). Mask[- . . .
(iv). Year 14, Theod[- . . .
(v). Aristarchos
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
(i). لسيس، إيرثامون (رفيق الفراش) (ii). ماكير (iii). ماسك [-. . . (iv). السنة 14 ، ثيود [-. . .
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.35.
i: for the term, and the monogram, see on P.3.
Bibliography: Cited, Masson, 1976, 59, 61, from Reynolds.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, Block 1 (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita II. 38)