Description: Fragments of painted wall-plaster,
found in small pieces fallen from the wall of a room. Incised 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 below Tyche (see B.10)
and to the right of a charioteer.
Letters: Neat Greek capitals, lunate sigma. 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
Hippolytos.
Commentary
Perhaps a reference to the story of Hippolytos, or simply to a charioteer.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1974-1975, B.xi whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1975.793; Reynolds, 1978, 6.xviii, whence SEG 28.1562
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).