IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.23. 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 on four fragments, possibly all in the same hand.
Letters: Rather rough 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.

Interpretive

a
[---]ΑΡ[---]
b
[---]ΧΙϹΤ̣ ( vac. 3)
c
[---] ΑΙΡ [---]
d
[---] ΟΡΚ [---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]ΑΡ[---]
b
[---]ΧΙϹ.      
c
[---]ΑΙΡ[---]
d
[---]ΟΡΚ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

None available (2020).