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C.342. 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, damaged.
Letters: Lunate letters, 0.05-0.03; line above first abbreviated name.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

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

Interpretive

Τι(βέριοϲ) [Κ]λ[α]ύδι[οϲ] Ἀ̣πολλ[---]
[c. 11]ΙΥΝ[..]Α
[---]Ϲ̣ΙΩ[---]
[---]ΔΣ̣[---]

Diplomatic

ΤΙ[.]Λ[.]ΥΔΙ[..].ΠΟΛΛ[---]
[···········]ΙΥΝ[··]Α
[---].ΙΩ[---]
[---]Δ.[---]

2: At the beginning of the line Oliverio prints the letters ΠΛΙ which look extremely dubious on his drawing.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Apoll[- . . . (or Priest of Apollo)

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 14, p.220, with a drawing, p.225 tav.III, fig.7, whence SEG 9.258, PHI 324107.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).