IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.377. 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 an area of smoothed clay, w: 0.40 x h: 0.35.
Letters: 0.04, 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.

Interpretive

Ϲεραπί-
ων [..]ΜΩ[---]-
-ευϲ Ἀμμ[ώνιο-?]
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Diplomatic

ϹΕΡΑΠΙ
ΩΝ[··]ΜΩ[---]
ΕΥϹΑΜΜ[.....]
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English translation

Translation by: Editors

Serapion [ . . . ] Amm[onios . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 51, p.234, with a drawing, p.233, tav. VII, 34, whence SEG 9.288, PHI 324137.
Text constituted from: From previous publications and drawings (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).