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.
Letters: Written in doubled 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
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
This could be Latin (so maximus) or Greek, from a name ending in -μαχος.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015I.6-8, G55
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).