Description: Limestone block broken away at right side and damaged below
(w:
0.86 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.16).
Text: Inscribed on one face; at least two hands.
Letters: First-second century CE; 0.10; lunate epsilon and sigma in line 3.
Date: First-second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Village, by the seashore, near the lighthouse.
Original location: Probably a gymnasium.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
2: ΥΕ is apparently a monogram, perhaps attached to the preceding Σ.
English translation
Translation by:
. . . ] ephebe for a second time [ . . .
Commentary
There appear to be two names listed here at different times - note the different forms of sigma in lines 2 and 3.
Lines 1-2: Perhaps a patronymic ending in -ιος; alternatively, the name of a Roman citizen, Τι. Κλαυδ/ιος might just fit the traces.
Line 2: ΥΕ is apparently one of the monograms found in ephebic texts, expressing the relationship between two ephebes.
Line 3: for the expression cf. T.74 δὶς ἔφηβος, T.44 and perhaps T.729 τρὶς ἔφηβος.
Line 4 may have given another name, but may have contained some laudatory epithet, e.g. παντάγαθος.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).