IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.38. 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 texts, b on a green border.
Letters: a, 0.015; b, written in double strokes.

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

a
[---] ἱ̣ε̣ρ̣ο̣φ̣ά̣ν̣τ̣η̣ς̣ [---]
b
[---]ΚΛΕ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]..........[---]
b
[---]ΚΛΕ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(a): . . . ]? priest [ . . .

Commentary

Cf B.8, B.30, B.31

Bibliography: Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015I.6-8, G40
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).