IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.353. Fragmentary imperial date

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 on an area of smoothed mud (w: 0.40 x h: 0.35).
Letters:

Date: CE 287

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

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Διοκλη-
τιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμι-
ανοῦ Σεβαστῶν
Μεσορὴ κ´ [ἐπὶ ἱερέως]
5Ἀντωνί[ου]
Ἀντωνί[ου---]
[---]ΠΩΣ------

Diplomatic

L ΓΔΙΟΚΛΗ
ΤΙΑΝΟΥΚΑΙΜΑΞΙΜΙ
ΑΝΟΥΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝ
ΜΕΣΟΡΗΚ[.........]
5ΑΝΤΩΝΙ[..]
ΑΝΤΩΝΙ[..---]
[---]ΠΩΣ------

English translation

Translation by: Editors

In the third year of Diocletian and Maximian Augusti, the 20th of the month Mesore, ( August 13th) in the priesthood of Antonius ?(scil. son) of Antonius ------

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 28, p.224, with a photograph, plate XXXVI, fig.9 and plate XXXVII, fig.9bis., whence SEG 9.267, PHI 324116.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).