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P.65. Ephebic names

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

Interpretive

i
((leaf)) (ἔτουϲ) β´ ((leaf))
Μ(ᾶρκοϲ) Λικίνι-
οϲ Καλό-
καιροϲ
ii
ϹΥϹ
iii
[---]Λ
[---]ονίδη[ϲ ---]

Diplomatic

i
L Β
ΜΛΙΚΙΝΙ
ΟϹΚΑΛΟ
ΚΑΙΡΟϹ
ii
ϹΥϹ
iii
[---]Λ
[---]ΟΝΙΔΗ[.---]

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)