IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.32. Informal record

Description: One fragment 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: Parts of two lines of painted text.
Letters: Neatly written

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

[---]ΟΛΙ ( vac. 3)[---]
[---]Η̣ΤΡΟΠΟ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΟΛΙ      [---]
[---].ΤΡΟΠ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Perhaps 'city', 'metropolis'

Bibliography: Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015 I.6-8, CG33
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).