Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.40 x depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on one face, in four hands: i, upper left corner; ii, upper right corner;
iii, lower right corner; iv, lower left side, presumably starting on an adjacent block.
Letters: i 0.05; ii 0.10; iii 0.04; lunate epsilon; lunate sigma in iii.
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.1: L ΙΡ ΑΠΟΛΛ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): Year 18: Midias.
(ii):Year 12: Apoll[-
(iii):Year 5: Serenos fr[iend] of Plokamos
(iv): . . . ]A
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
iii: for friend/φίλος, see on P.9.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 22
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental institute - Chicago 49577)