IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.28. Informal record

Description: Seven fragments of 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: No description.

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

[---] Ἀντ[ω]νί[ν]ω̣ [---]
[---] Ἐπιγονο[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΝΤ[.]ΝΙ[.].[---]
[---]ΕΠΙΓΟΝΟ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Perhaps Antoninus, Epigonos; there may be two personal names here, but line one may have contained an imperial name.

Bibliography: Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015I.6-8, CG1
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).