IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.36. Informal record

Description: 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, on a horizontal red border to the left of the head of Tyche
Letters: 0.012, rather faint.

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

[--- Π]ύρρα

Diplomatic

[---.]ΥΡΡΑ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Pyrra

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015I.6-8, G20
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).