Description:
Limestone
block cut on a
curve, broken at the right end (w:
1.07 x d:
depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: Too worn to date. line 1, 0.07-0.10, quite formally cut; l.2, 0.07, much rougher and probably not part of the same text.
Date: Roman period
Findspot:
Berenike:
Sidi Khrebish, Church, re-used in the apse; found in 1973
Original location: Unknown: apparently an apse.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Apparatus
1: First letter could be Τ, Γ; omicron could be omega.English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
The stone must have been designed for an apse but hardly for its present position.
Line 1 appears to be part of a monumental text; it would be possible to interpret the traces as Γ ὁ π̣ατ̣ηρ̣ Ο "the father".
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 4.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).