Description:
Colonnette of limestone (0.42 0.48)
Text: Inscribed three times;
i is within a wreath; ii below this; iii on the opposite side and upside down to i and ii.
Letters: i, 0.03, lunate sigma, L for ἔτους, ivy leaves on either side of line 1 . ii, 0.13, very roughly cut. iii. 0.13, roughly cut
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Church; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
French translation
Translation source: AE
i: L'an 2, Marcus Licinius Calocairos.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
i: Year 2: M(arcus) Licinius Kalokairos
ii and iii not usefully translatable
Commentary
Here, and in P.66, P.77, the wreaths and palms probably indicate an ephebic victor.
iii is clearly an informal scribble
Bibliography: i: Reynolds, 1996, Tolmeita 1 and plate XV.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, AE 1996.1665, SEG 46.2215
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, showing i (Reynolds, II.47)
Fig. 2. Face, showing i (Reynolds, II.48.2)