IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.384. 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: Graffito on a layer of smoothed mud, w: 0.60 x h: 0.30.
Letters: 0.035, lunate sigma, epsilon.

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

ἐ[π’]ἱ̣ε̣[ρέ]ωϲ τ[οῦ κτ]ίϲ[του]
[Ἀπόλλωνος ---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[εἰϲήλθ-?]
εἰϲ [τὸ νυμφαῖον?]
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Diplomatic

Ε[..]..[..]ΩϹΤ[....]ΙϹ[...]
[.........---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[......]
ΕΙϹ[..........]
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English translation

Translation by: Editors

In the priesthood of the Founder [Apollo of x . . . he/they /we] enter[ed . . .

Commentary

For commentary on this series see on C.336.

Bibliography: Oliverio, 1927a, 58, p.238, with a drawing, p.235, tav. VIII, 39, whence SEG 9.295, PHI 324144.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).