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P.184. Fragmentary names

Description: Block of sandstone (w: 1.20 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.60).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is lost to the left, in two hands: i, upper and central, may have continued on another block; ii below, apparently centred.
Letters: i, 0.08; ii, 0.04-5.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais, Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), in the south west corner; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Text

i
[--- Κ]λ̣αυδιο- | [---]
[---]ν̣ιος Κο- | [---]
ii
[---] Ἀθάμας
[---]ΠΛ ( vac. )

Diplomatic

Text

i
[---.].ΑΥΔΙΟ | [---]
[---].ΙΟΣΚΟ | [---]
ii
[---]ΑΘΑΜΑΣ
[---]ΠΛ      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): . . . ] Klaudios (i.e. Claudius) [ . . .; (ii): . . . ] Athamas [ . . .

Commentary

One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 28.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1958, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49572)