Description: Sandstone block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.39 x d:
0.57).
Text: Inscribed on one face in five hands: i and ii must have begun on a preceding block,
iv must have continued on a block on the right;
iii inscribed within a traced rectangle.
Letters: i. 0.085; ii. 0.17; iii 0.10; iv, deep flat trenches, 0.19; v, neat lettering 0.06; lunate sigma, written within the preceding
letter, in iii.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), in the south wall; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i and ii) (not translatable)
(iii) Year 3. Lykos son of Lykos
(iv) Year 15. Phil[-
(v). Agathei[-
Commentary
One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.
iii: for the patronymic written below in smaller letters see P.91, P.185, P.186.iii.
iv: Phil[ - . . is probably from a name, since it appears to open the text, rather than a reference to friends, which would usually come later.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 30.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48761)