Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.40 x depth not measurable), the upper right corner lost.
Text: Inscribed on the face, in three hands: i, top left; ii, bottom left; iii, bottom right.
Letters: i 0.04; ii, iii 0.06; lunate epsilon and sigma in i.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, re-used upside down in the west wall; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
ii: The text must have begun on a block to the left.
iii.2: ΔΑΧΙΟΣ is written in small letters within the name
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i.) Year 3: G(aios) Avidios Severos (i.e. G(aius) Avidius Severus)
(ii.) ...? (scil. son/friend)] of Ialmis
(iii.) Year. Year 1: Dachis (scil. son) of Dachis
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
iii. The cutter seems to have abandoned the first line and started again on the second. 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: Kraeling, 1962, 20.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental institute - Chicago 49576)