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:
0.50 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.
Apparatus
The iota, attached to the theta, seems clear.English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] conversing with the divine [ . . .
Commentary
For commentary on this series see on C.336.
Θεόμιλος, "conversant with God", is found in Christian texts (see Trapp, LBG, s.v., at TLG)
Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 54, p.236, with a drawing, p.235, tav. VIII, 37, whence SEG 9.291, PHI 324140.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).