IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.362. Record

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 clay, w: 0.40 x h: 0.35
Letters: 0.035; lunate sigma, epsilon.

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

εἰϲῆλθε[ν]
εἰϲ τὰϲ [Νύμφαϲ] Ν
ΕΤ[c. 8]
[c. 6]ΕΝ̣[...]
5[c. 8]Λ[..]
[c. 7]ΙΟϹ
Ν̣Α̣( vac. )

Diplomatic

ΕΙϹΗΛΘΕ[.]
ΕΙϹΤΑϹ[......]Ν
ΕΤ[········]
[······]Ε.[···]
5[········]Λ[··]
[·······]ΙΟϹ
..      

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Entered to the [Nymphs . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 37, p.228, with a drawing, p.231, tav. VI, 20, whence SEG 9.276, PHI 324125.
Text constituted from: From previous publications and drawings (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).