IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.378. Fragmentary dated 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: Very uncertain lines, graffito on an area of black mud, w: 0.40 x h: 0.30.
Letters: 0.03, 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

εἰϲήλθαμε[ν]
εἰϲ τὰϲ νύμφαϲ
ἐ[πὶ ἱ]ε̣ρέοϲ Εὐον-
[ύμου?---]
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5[---]Δ̣[---]
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Diplomatic

ΕΙϹΗΛΘΑΜΕ[.]
ΕΙϹΤΑϹΝΥΜΦΑϹ
Ε[...].ΡΕΟϹΕΥΟΝ
[....---]
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5[---].[---]
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English translation

Translation by: Editors

We entered to the nymphs in the priesthood of Euon[?ymos . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

This is presumably the same priest as in C.379.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 52, p.234, with a drawing, p.235, tav. VIII, 35 and photograph, tav. XXXVI, 13 , whence SEG 9.289, PHI 324138.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).