Description: Rock-cut channel, with multiple informal inscriptions, C.336 to C.392; some are traced in the mud that coats the walls of the channel, others have been modelled by attaching strips of clay or
mud to the rock.
Text: Graffito on an area of smoothed clay, w:
0.40 x h:
0.50
Letters: 0.025; ΟΥ apparently in ligature; lunate sigma, epsilon.
Date: CE 285/288
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Fountain of Apollo, rock-cut channel behind the fountain; first described in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916.
Original location: Fountain of Apollo.
Last recorded location:
Fountain of Apollo; no longer accessible.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, 1927a
Nel primo anno dell'imperatore Diocleziano (284 d.C.) il sacerdote Giulio entrò . . .
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year [1] of Diocletian: (the) priest Julius entered . . . .
Commentary
For commentary on this series see on C.336.
Line 1: Oliverio printed a figure α' but his drawing shows neither the letter nor the space for it. It seems probable that the writer omitted it by confusion with the first letter of Διοκλητιανοῦ; he may have intended α' = CE 284/5, or δ' = 288/9. The first is more likely, since the reference is to Diocletian as sole emperor.
Line 2: The priest is not necessarily the eponymous and if the date was CE 285, the year of Lysanias, see C.361, cannot have been.
Line 3: So Oliverio's drawing; he prints νεωκορ[ο- but compare C.354 for the epithet νέος.
Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 35, p.228, with a drawing, p.229, tav. V, 18, whence Boehringer, 1929 399, SEG 9.274, PHI 324123.
Text constituted from: From previous publications and drawings (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).