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.17.
Letters: Rough Greek capitals, cursive omega. 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.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] Ammon[ . . .
Commentary
Possibly a reference to the god Ammon, but names compounded with his are common in Cyrenaica and one such may well be what was written here.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 6.xv, whence SEG 28.1560
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).