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.40. i cut vertically. iii in very small letters between ii and v;
iv in larger letters to the left of iii.
Letters: i, iii 0.03; ii, v 0.07; iv, 0.05; 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.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): Diodoros (scil. son/friend) of Lysias
(ii): Mal......yles.
(iii): Paraibatas.
(iv): -pimopes.
(v): Glaukos and Kallias ?the same, friends, Theogenes.
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.35.
ii:For the name cf. Μαλύλος, C.433.xiii
v: the monogram, for which see on P.26, is probable here but not completely clear.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
