Description:
Limestone
block (w:
1.21 x h:
0.37 x d:
0.43).
Text: Graffiti on one face in several hands; ii to the right of of i, line 1.
Letters: i: Deeply cut; line 1, 0.14; line 2, 0.12 and (patronymic) 0.04; ii: 0.03 - 0.04; L for ἔτους. To the left and a little below
there are other letters, P A and, below them, L for ἔτους.
Date: First century BCE to first century A.D
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
House of Paulus, in the north wall of a room; found in 1955.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
a.1: The last two letters in this line had been marked out by punched holes but never properly cut a.2: The patronymic in small letters cut within and between those of the name.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): Year 8: Dachis. Apollonios (scil. son) of -oinos. (ii): Year 10.
Commentary
Certainly ephebic graffiti; see on P.1, P.35.
i: For the patronymic written in small letters within and between the letters of the names, typical of ephebic inscriptions, see C.61, C.123, C.124, and many examples at Ptolemais: P.2, P.11, P.13, P.14, P.69, P.124, P.133, P.134, P.178, P.182, P.185, P.190, and cf P.200.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I.5; NB V.6)