IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.359. Fragmentary 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: 0.50.
Letters: 0.025; lunate epsilon, sigma

Date: CE 287

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

ἐπὶ ἱερέω̣ϲ Ἀ̣ρχ̣εδάμου
[c. 12]Λ̣Ϲ̣[.]
[c. 6]ΙϹ

Diplomatic

ΕΠΙΙΕΡΕ.Ϲ.Ρ.ΕΔΑΜΟΥ
[············]..[·]
[······]ΙϹ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

In the priesthood of Archedamos [ . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 34, p.228, with a drawing, p.229, tav. V, 17, whence SEG 9.273, PHI 324122.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).