Description: Sandstone
blocks, too high to measure, in the wall of the North Tower of the West Gate,
inscribed, while in their present position, on the West wall, with
P.8,
P.9P.10,
P.11,
P.12,
P.13,
P.14,
P.15,
P.16.
Text: Graffito on two adjoining
blocks, two courses below P.8, and a third block
in the course below, immediately under the first. i. On the raised central area of the first block, continued on that of the
second; ii. On the first block below i;
iii. On the lower inset of the first block below ii; iv. On the raised central area of the third block, below iii;
v. On the raised central area.
Letters: L for ἔτους; in i, ΗΡ in ligature, ΣΤΚ monogram for Κ; lunate sigma in ii only; six hands.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
West Gate, North tower, north wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
i: Μνασί[ας] CIG, Vol.III ; ΗΡΑΚΛΙΤΑ Pacho, 1827ii: Μά(ρκω) : Μ Pacho, 1827; Μ[άρκω] CIG, Vol.III
iii.i: LΙΒ Pacho, 1827 so Oliverio
iii.2: Other editors read this line as line 1 of iv. ΑΡΝΙΟΣ Pacho, 1827 so Oliverio; Αἴνιος Marengo, 1988a
iv.2: Φ space ΑΜ Pacho, 1827; Φ space ΑΛ CIG, Vol.III
v: ΜΑΚΟΣΜ Pacho, 1827
vi: L ιβ΄Πυ - Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 8. Mnesicle di Eraclide. - Anno 12. Marco di Ma(rco?). - Anno 12. Soso. Enio. Anno 12. Sabino di Ma(rco). - Anno 12. Marco di Ma(rco?).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
i. Year 8: Mnasikles (bed-fellow) of Heraklidas
ii. Year 12: Markos (i.e. Marcus) (scil. friend) of Markos (i.e. Marcus)
iii. Year 12: Sosos (scil. friend) of Karnis
iv. Year 12: Sabeinos, friend of Markos (i.e. Marcus)
v. Year 12: Markos (i.e. Marcus) (scil. friend) of Markos (i.e. Marcus)
vi. Year 12: IT...
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
(i). السنة 8، مناسيكليس (شريك الفراش) مع هيراكليداس. (ii). السنة 12، ماركوس (صديق) لماركوس. (iii). السنة 12، سوسوس (صديق ل) كارنيس. (iv). السنة 12، سابينوس صديق لماركوس. (v). السنة 12، ماركوس (صديق ل) ماركوس (vi). السنة 12، إت ...
Commentary
For this group of texts see commentary on P.1
i. For the K in Heraklidas the cutter has used the monogram, ΣΤΚ, for which see on P.3
ii: Oliverio tentatively suggested Μά(ρκω) Ἀλεξανδρεὺς.
iv. 2: This is apparently an abbreviation of the word φίλος, another term used to link a pair of ephebes (e.g. P.11, P.12, P.22, P.70); the more common abbreviation is φιλ, expressed as a monogram: see on P.26.
Bibliography: i, ii, iii, v, vi: Pacho, 1827, LXXIV, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5203, CIG, Vol.III, 5218, CIG, Vol.III, 5230; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 494 (18), fig.82, whence SEG 9.378, PHI 324227; discussed by Marengo, 1988a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1990.837; iv: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 497 (21), whence SEG 9.381, PHI 324230.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
