Description: A sandstone block, w:
0.28 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.12.
Text: Inscribed on two faces. On face i the monogram brackets the surviving line and one of whidh there are slight traces below.
Letters: 0.03.
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:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
i.1: The cutter has avoided a fault in the stone.English translation
Translation by: Editors
(ii): . . . -]os Glych[- . . . -]n, friends.
Commentary
i: For the monogram (σύγκ) used here and in other ephebic contexts, see on P.3.
ii: For φίλοι, used to link a pair of ephebes, see on P.9
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
_001 "Face i (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita V. 9, NS.XIII.9)")
Fig. 1. Face i (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita V. 9, NS.XIII.9)_002 "Face ii (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita V. 8, NS.XIII.8)")
Fig. 2. Face ii (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita V. 8, NS.XIII.8)