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P.69. Ephebic names

Description: Sandstone block, the front face broken away below.
Text: Graffiti on two sides: i-iii on the front, iii within a circle to the left of i and ii. iv-viii on the reverse face. Each entry in a different hand.
Letters: i, ii, 0.12; iii, 0.03; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century BCE to first century A.D

Findspot: Ptolemais: re-used in the West Church; probably found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Lying with debris cleared from it or removed to Tolmeita Museum from this position.

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) ιγ´ Μ(ᾶρκοϲ) Ἀππ[---]
ii
(ἔτους) ι´ Ἑρμ[---]
iii
[Λού]κι-
ος Αἴλι-
ος Ἅρπαλ-
ο̣ς̣ ( vac. 3)
5 φίλος πάν-
[των]
iv
Αἰάλ[αντος ?] Προ̣[---]
v
[---]ΜΑ[---]
vi
[---]ΙΝΟΦΑΝΤ̣[---]
vii
[---]ΟΦΙΛ̣Ι̣ΟΛ[---]
viii
[---]ωρος Ο[---]

Diplomatic

i
L ΙΓΜΑΠΠ[---]
ii
L ΙΕΡΜ[---]
iii
[...]ΚΙ
ΟΣΑΙΛΙ
ΟΣΑΡΠΑΛ
..      
5ΦΙΛΟΣΠΑΝ
[...]
iv
ΑΙΑΛ[.....]ΠΡ.[---]
v
[---]ΜΑ[---]
vi
[---]ΙΝΟΦΑΝ.[---]
vii
[---]ΟΦΙ..ΟΛ[---]
viii
[---]ΩΡΟΣΟ[---]

Apparatus

iv: The patronymic is written in small letters between those of the name.

French translation

Translation source: AE

iii: Lucius Aelius Harpalus, l'ami de tous.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i): Year 13, M(arkos) (i.e. M(arcus)) App[- . . .

(ii): Year 10, Herm[- . . .

(iii): L(oukios) Ailios (i.e. L(ucius) Aelius) Harpalos friend of all

(iv): . . . ] of Aialas, Pro[- . . .

Commentary

iii: For 'friend of all' compare P.66 and P.316, and see on P.22.

iv: For the patronymic written in small letters within and between the letters of the names, typical of ephebic inscriptions, see C.61, C.123, C.124, and many examples at Ptolemais: P.2, P.11, P.13, P.14, P.69, P.91, P.124, P.133, P.134, P.178, P.182, P.185, P.190, and compare P.200.

Bibliography: iii: Reynolds, 1996, Tolmeita 3, p.41, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.627, AE 1996.1667, SEG 46.2217
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Texts i, ii and iii (Reynolds XIII.42)


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