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: On the block to the right of P.39; i very lightly cut at the left side;
ii more deeply cut in the centre; iii written vertically at the right.
Letters: i, 0.04; ii, 0.09; iii, 0.03; three 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
ii.3: The final two letters appear to belong, but seem inexplicable.English translation
Translation by: Editors
Autokles (scil. and) Diodorοs.
Damon (scil. and) Agathandros, wrestling partners and friends.
Kyrbasias [---]
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
(i). أوتوكليس (بن) ديودوروس. (ii). دامون (بن) أغاثاندروس، صديقان ورفيقان في المصارعة. (iii). كيرباسياس [---]
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.35.
ii.3. σύμπαλοι clearly refers to an ephebic grouping
ii.3: for φίλοι expressed as a monogram see on P.26.
Bibliography: iii: mentioned by Masson, 1974, 224, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.782
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
