Description: Block of limestone with an area cut away for the insertion of a large item; chipped at the upper left corner,
perhaps trimmed off above for re-use (w:
0.96 x h:
0.55).
Text: Inscribed on the left half of one face,
the right half being occupied by a large schematic wreath with pendent ribbons; there is a hole cut near the υ.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma, W shaped omega; L for ἔτους.
Date: First century BCE to first century A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
perhaps re-used in the West Church; probably found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Lying loose among the debris to the West of the West Church, in which it may have been re-used.
Apparatus
1: It is possible that the date preceded the name as in line 4, but the surface is worn here.English translation
Translation by: Editors
G(aios) Iulios (i.e. G(aius) Julius) Herodes Year 17, Artaphan (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius), friends.
Commentary
The large schematic wreath with pendent ribbons occupying the right side of the inscribed face probably indicates an ephebic victor, as in P.65, P.66; but there is no trace of an inscription within the wreath.
Line 6: for this ephebic term see on P.9; the plural pairs Herodes with Artaphan.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, II.49.1)
Fig. 2. Face, left end (Reynolds, II.49.2)