Description: Fragments of painted wall-plaster, found in small pieces fallen from the wall: the restorers have been able to assemble a number of larger pieces, with vB.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: Scratched on the plaster.
Letters: Carefully written cursive Latin. Second half of the second or third century CE

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

Findspot: Berenike: Sidi Khrebish, Building H, Room 5. 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.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1974-1975, B.i, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1975.793; Reynolds, 1978, 6, whence SEG 28.1550; observations in Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015, C.I.6. For the building see Lloyd, 1978 89-101.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

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