Description:
Sandstone
block (w:
c.0.815 x h:
0.47 x d:
not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: Latin capitals, second century: 0.108; well-cut, but not well laid out.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Berenike:
Sidi Khrebish, City wall, re-used upside down; found in 1971.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . Ha]dria[n- . . .
Commentary
Clearly from the left end of a monumental inscription, presumably containing the name Hadrian, from the name of that emmperor or one of his family. The letters are respectably cut; but the layout, which involved an awkward division of the imperial name, is weak, perhaps because of a Greek workman's insensitivity to Latin.
Building work under Hadrian might refer to restoration after the Jewish revolt of 115 CE
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 9 and pl. XXV.b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, SB.IV.242)