IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.354. 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 a smoothed layer of blackened clay (creta nerastra), in an area w: 0.40 x h: 0.30.
Letters: Mixture of miniscule and majuscule, 0.03; L for ἔτους

Date: CE 284/5

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) α´ Διοκλητιανο[ῦ]
ἐπὶ ἱερέως
Λυσανίου τοῦ
καὶ Εὐπειθίου νέ
5ου c. 4ΡΟ
ΡΤ
ΟΥ +++ ΟΡ
ΔΟΝ

Diplomatic

L ΑΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟ[.]
ΕΠΙΙΕΡΕΩΣ
ΛΥΣΑΝΙΟΥΤΟΥ
ΚΑΙΕΥΠΕΙΘΙΟΥΝΕ
5ΟΥ····ΡΟ
ΡΤ
ΟΥ···ΟΡ
ΔΟΝ

2: Oliverio supplied [τοῦ κτιστοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year one of Diocletian in the priesthood of Lysanias also called Eupeithias ?the young . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 29, p.226, with a photograph, plate XXXVII, fig.10., whence SEG 9.268, PHI 324117.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).