Description: Sandstone block (w:
0.84 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.49),
probably cut down for re-use.
Text: Incised on the exposed face, the text is likely to have continued into a block into the right.
Letters: 0.07.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Byzantine 'fortress', reused in an internal wall; found in 1966.
Original location: Gymnasium
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
An ephebic graffito; since the accusative case is unusual in these texts the traces should probably be seen as from the centre, noit the end, of a name. The omicron has perhaps been converted to a badly written φίλος monogram, common in ephebic texts (see on P.9)
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1969, Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 2. Face (1969, Joyce Reynolds)