Description: Two sandstone
blocks. Block a: w:
0.62 x h:
0.295 x d:
0.325;
block b: w:
0.58 x h:
0.34 x d:
0.49.
Text: Inscribed on one face of both blocks with a monumental text (i); later informal texts (ii) were
cut: ii.a, on block a, ii.b on block b. In ii.b the cutter has avoided a hole in the stone.
Letters: i. Monumental capitals, truncated, 0.26; ii. a, 0.025 - 0.045, ii. b, 0.04-5.
Date: i: mid-first - early second century CEii: second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments, north side, re-used in a late wall;
block a. found in 1936, block b. found in 1935/6,
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lying loose in the street.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): . . . victor in ] Ge[rmany . . .
(ii.a): Auto[- . . .
(ii.b). . . (scil. son/friend)] of Ammonios.
Commentary
i. If the text could be dated it should have a bearing on the building history of the Gymnasium. In the first century Gaius, Claudius, Nero, Domitian and Nerva, in the second century Trajan, Marcus and Commodus had the title Germanicus; the letter forms are not likely to be later and perhaps not as late as the second half of the second century.
Bibliography: ii.a only: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 518 (42), p. 253, whence SEG 9.393, PHI 324242.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
_003front "Block b, face (Reynolds NB V.16)")
Fig. 1. Block b, face (Reynolds NB V.16)_002front "From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135")
Fig. 2. From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135_001front "From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135")
Fig. 3. From left: P.128, P.126, block b, P.135