Description: Sandstone block (w:
0.49 x h:
0.84).
Text: Incised on the face, which is worn. Probably a different hand in each line.
Letters: 0.04 - 0.05.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
East Gate in situ in an internal wall of the South Tower; found in 1962
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] Automedon; Arthumallan; Sosos (scil. son) of Sos[os; . . -]ga friend of Ply[- . .
Commentary
Line 4: The monogram is common in ephebic texts at Ptolemais and Tocra; see on P.26.
Bibliography: Name in line 2 cited Masson, 1976, 58
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra II.4.20A, NS.III.20)