IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.355. 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 on a layer of blackened clay (creta nerastra), in an field w: 0.45 x h: 0.30; originally five or six lines.
Letters: 0.07; lunate sigma

Date: Second to early fourth century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Fountain of Apollo: 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

Μαρκιανόϲ
καὶ Ἀβάσχαν̣-
[τ]ος [---]
Μ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟϹ
ΚΑΙΑΒΑΣΧΑ.
[.]ΟΣ[---]
Μ[---]
[------]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Markianos and Abaschantos [ . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 30, p.226, with a drawing, page 229, tav. V, fig.15, whence SEG 9.269, PHI 324118.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).