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:
0.37 x h:
0.30.
Letters: 0.015, lunate epsilon, 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.
Apparatus
2: [Ἰουλ]ίω Oliverio, 1927a4: Possibly νυμφαῖον was completed in line 3 and a short name stood at the beginning of line 4 followed by κὲ = καί.
5: [Κυ]ρηναῖο[- Oliverio, 1927a
6: γενευϲ Oliverio, 1927a
English translation
Translation by: Editors
In the time of the curatorship of ? Theodoros we entered into the nymphaeum [ . . .
Commentary
For commentary on this series see on C.336.
Line 1 The title is otherwise unattested at Cyrene; it may refer to the custodian of the shrine.
Line 2 See Oliverio's drawing; he prints [Ἰουλ]ίω.
Line 4
Line 5 Oliverio proposed .
Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 44, p.232, with a drawing, p.233, tav. VII, 28, whence SEG 9.284, PHI 324133.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).