IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.14. Fragments

Description: Fragments of painted wall-plaster, found in small pieces fallen from the wall of a room, with B.4, B.5, B.6, B.7, B.8, B.9, B.10, B.11, B.12, B.13, B.14, B.15, B.16, B.17, B.18, B.19, B.20, B.21, B.22, B.23, B.24, B.25, B.26, B.27, B.28, B.29, B.30, B.31, B.32, B.33, B.34, B.35, B.36, B.37, B.38, B.39, B.40.
Text: Scratched to the right of B.13 and a little below, beside what was perhaps the lost body of the same figure.
Letters: Neat Greek cursive. Second half of the second or third century CE

Date: Second half of the second or third century CE

Findspot: Berenike: Sidi Khrebish, Building H. At a date late in the life of the house the room must have been open to the public who scratched graffiti on its walls; it seems probable that it had in fact become an hotel.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Benghazi Museum.

Interpretive

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[---] Τ̣
[---] Ν
[---]σοι
[---] Τ̣Ε
5[---]γε ἐὰν
[---]τ̣εινε-
[---]τ̣ω
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10[---]Α̣
[---]ΦΙ[.]Ν μοι
( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

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[---].
[---]Ν
[---]ΣΟΙ
[---]
5[---]ΓΕΕΑΝ
[---].ΕΙΝΕ
[---]
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10[---].
[---]ΦΙ[·]ΝΜΟΙ
      

Apparatus

12: φ may be ψ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 6.xi
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).