IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.382. 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: Graffito on a thin layer of smoothed clay, w: 0.30 x h: 0.40 - 0.15.
Letters:

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

σὺν θεοφανείᾳ
ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ ἐπὶ [ἱερέως]
τοῦ κτίστου [Ἀπόλλ]ωνος
Ἰουλί[ου] Κλερο[---]
5Βαλέριος
Μάξιμος [---]
αἱ ἐν τ[ῷ? νυμφαίῳ?]

Diplomatic

ΣΥΝΘΕΟΦΑΝΕΙΑ
ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗΕΠΙ[......]
ΤΟΥΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ[.....]ΩΝΟΣ
ΙΟΥΛΙ[..]ΚΛΕΡΟ[---]
5ΒΑΛΕΡΙΟΣ
ΜΑΞΙΜΟΣ[---]
ΑΙΕΝΤ[........]

4: Oliverio prints Ἰουλι[ου Κλερο], presumably a misprint, perhaps for Ἰουλί[ου] Κλερο[...]. .

English translation

Translation by: Editors

With a divine appearance. For Good Fortune. In the priesthood of the Founder Apollo of Julius ?Klero-, Valerius Maximus[ . . . the ?godd]esses in the [nymphaeum . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Line 1: If correctly read this should refer to a divine vision, see PW V.1 s.v. Theophanie and IV s.v. Epiphanie.

Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 56, p.236, with a photograph, pl. XXXVI, fig. 15, , whence Boehringer, 1929 399, SEG 9.293, PHI 324142.
Text constituted from: From previous publications and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).