Description: Three limestone
blocks.
Text: Inscribed on the exposed faces; each entry in a different hand. i on the uppermost block in the group; the text began on the
preceding block and finished on a subsequent one.
ii on the block below i. iii, on the block to the right of b, was completed on a subsequent block.
When the wall was in good repair the inscriptions were not visible.
Letters: i. perhaps first century BCE: lightly cut and freehand, average 0.05. ii. probably first century CE: 0.08. iii. first - second
century: line 1, 0.095; line 2, 0.05; tricorn stop after the figure in line 1; L for ἔτους.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
re-used in the West outer wall of the Fortress of the Dux; found in 1970.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ] Theudeotos Na[- . . . ; (ii): Montanos; (iii): Year 2, T(iberios) Kl(audios) (i.e. T(iberius) Cl(audius)) [ . . . Year 2: Leon (scil. son) of Loukios Atilios (i.e. Lucius Atilius) [ . . .
Commentary
Very proably ephebic
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).