IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.5. Ephebic? name

Description: Sandstone blocks, too high to measure, in the North Tower of the West Gate, inscribed, while in their present positions, on the North wall: P.1, P.2, P.3, P.4, P.5, P.6, P.7.
Text: Graffito on the raised central area of the block at the West end of the same course as P.4. There is an upsilon above.
Letters: Standard forms; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: West Gate, North tower, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

( vac. )Υ
(ἔτους) ιγ´ Πόπλιος

Diplomatic

                Υ
L ΙΓΠΟΠΛΙΟΣ

Apparatus

2: ΠΟΠΑΙΟΣ Pacho, 1827

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Anno 13. Publio.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 13: Poplios (i.e. Publius).

Commentary

For this group of texts see commentary on P.1.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5224; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 501 (25) p. 249 and fig. 83, whence SEG 9.385, PHI 324234.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXIV)

   Fig. 2. P.3 above, P.5 one course lower (Reynolds NS.XII.7)

   Fig. 3. P.3 above, P.5 one course lower, to the left