IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.340. Fragmentary ?names

Description: Rock-cut channel, with multiple informal inscriptions, C.336 to C.392; some are traced in the mud that coats the walls of the channel, others have been modelled by attaching strips of clay or mud to the rock.
Text: Graffito; broken away at left side.
Letters: Lunate sigma; apparently a ligature in line 1.

Date: Second to early fourth century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Fountain of Apollo: in rock-cut channel behind the fountain; first described in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916.
Original location: Fountain of Apollo.
Last recorded location: Fountain of Apollo. no longer accessible.

Interpretive

[---]Ι̣Π̣ΙϹΡΑ
[---]Ι̣Ι̣((stop))Ἰουλ--
[---]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ϹΩ
[---]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΑϹ
5[---]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ϹΑ

Diplomatic

[---]..ΙϹΡΑ
[---].. ΙΟΥΛ
[---]...ϹΩ
[---]....ΑϹ
5[---].....ϹΑ

1-2: [ἐ]π' ἱερέ[ως τοῦ κτιστοῦ Ἀπόλλω]/ [νος] Ἰουλ[ίου . . . Oliverio, 1927a

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] in the priesthood of [ . . . ] Ioul[ios (i.e. Julius)

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 9-12, p.220, with a drawing, p.223 tav.II, fig.5, whence SEG 9.257, PHI 324106.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).