Description: Series of blocks standing in a row (w:
0.575 x h:
0.375 x d:
0.59).
Part of a group inscribed with P.127, P.128, P.129,
P.130, P.131, P.132, P.133,
P.134, P.135.
Text: Graffiti on one face; three different hands; the monogram (line 4) is written to the left of lines 1-3.
Letters: Line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.04; line 3: 0.14.
Date: First century BCE to second century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments, north side, re-used in late buildings; found in 1935/6.
Original location: ?A gymnasium.
Last recorded location:
Lying loose in the street.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
-on [ . . . -]s [. . . -]os [(scil. son) of -]os. Bedfellows
Commentary
Line 3: there is an ο within the omicron, and a Υ between omicron and sigma, written extremely small: this would appear to be from a patronymic, 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. (compare e.g. P.2, P.134, P.190)
Line 4: For the monogram, see on P.3. Here it must express the relationship between ephebes whose names were written to the left.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
_001front "Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 7)")
_002front "Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 7)")
