Description: Part of a marble panel reconstructed from fragments (w:
0.28 x h:
0.015)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1,9, not measurable; lines 2, 3, 0.04; line 4, 0.035; lines 5-8, 0.03; superscript bar above the abbreviated praenomen
in line 3
Date: 180-192 CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Church; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
1: Applebaum omits this line.2: . . . ]ΕΜΟ[ . . . Applebaum, 1950
3: . . . ] ΤΙΚ[λαύδιος ? . . . Applebaum, 1950
4: . . . ]ΕΣΕ[ . . . ]ΟΣ [ . . . Applebaum, 1950
5: . . . ] ἀκαδημαρχ[ήσαντος ? Applebaum, 1950
6: . . . Φαιν]ιανοῦ Applebaum, 1950
7: . . . ] . ΞΙΑΛΟΥ Κοκ[κείας or [κειανοῦ Applebaum, 1950
8: . . . ] . ΚΑΛΛ[ . . . Applebaum, 1950
9: Applebaum omits this line.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[In year x of emperor y] M(arkos) (i.e. M(arcus)) O[- . . ]and Ti(berios) (i.e. Ti(berius)) Ko[- . . . ] Serenos [ . . . ]acting as akademearchs [ . . . -]ianos [?acting as] gymn[asiarch . . /.] Dexillos Kokk[ei- . . .] Kalli[- . . .
Commentary
Line 1: The erased word indicates that the name of a condemned emperor stood here - probably Commodus; this is followed by a list of officials.
Line 5: A reference to ἀκαδημαρχος or ἀκαδημαρχοῦντες; the text is from the preamble to an ephebic document. See further on P.54, and at Cyrene, C.131.
Line 6: From γυμνασιαρχος or γυμνασιαρχῶν.
Bibliography: Applebaum, 1950, F.2, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1951.245; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 103.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds II.45)
Fig. 2. Face
Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds III.42)
Fig. 4. Face