IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.27. Informal record

Description: Fragments of white 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: Painted text.
Letters: Well-formed Latin Rustic capitals.

Date: Second half of the second or early third century CE

Findspot: Berenike, Sidi Khrebish, Building H, Room 6. 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

i
[---ar]bitro et c[---]
ii
[---]ṂATV[---]
[---] Aug[---]

Diplomatic

i
[---..]BITROETC[---]
ii
[---].ATV[---]
[---]AUG[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

ii. may contain a reference to an emperor or to the month of August.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1974-1975, A; Reynolds, 1978, 7
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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