IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.363. Fragment

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 smoothened mud, on the vault, w: 0.30 x h: 0.40.
Letters: A few traces of letters, 0.07

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

[---]ΜΗ[---]
[---]ϹΘΥΙ[---]
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[---]Μ̣Η[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΜΗ[---]
[---]ϹΘΥΙ[---]
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1-2: Perhaps Μ(ν)ήσθ(ητ)ι Oliverio, 1927a; Perhaps Μ(ν)ήσθυ(τ)ι SEG

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 37b, p.230, with a drawing, p.231, tav. VI, 21, whence SEG 9.277, PHI 324126.
Text constituted from: From previous publications and drawings (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).