Description: Rock-cut tank;
C.332 is inscribed on the internal wall, C.333,
C.334 and C.335 on the floor.
Text: Inscribed on the floor. The text might be informal, but the purposeful if rough lettering suggests not.
Letters: First-second century 0.15; square epsilon, lunate sigma, square omega, very irregular.
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Fountain of Apollo, the tank receiving the water.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) [ . . . ], son of Serapion [?built this]
Commentary
Roughly aligned with C.333, line 2 but clearly quite separate from it. It may have been a record of other work to the tank, though whether this was earlier or later the letter-forms are too rough to indicate.
LGPN read this as a single name, Ti(berius) Claudius Serapion (V1-65581). Ti. Claudius Pankles, son of Serapion, is attested as Priest of Apollo in the middle first century C.33; he or a relation may be involved here.
Bibliography: Text given in a footnote on SECir, 1961-1962, 112 (from Oliverio, notebook XV, page 81, dated 30 September, and p. 83)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).