Description: Mosaic floor with a series of panels,
containing C.66,
C.67, C.68,
C.69, C.70, C.71,
C.72, C.73
Text: Mosaic lettering within a rectangular panel
(4.21).
Letters: Line 1, 0.13-0.16; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Hesychios: on the floor of the South corridor.
Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Good Fortune to Hesychios in God; increase his life (?livelihood) in all circumstances.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Good Fortune to Hesychios! in God may he flourish throughout his life!
Commentary
One of a group of inscriptions concerned with the prosperity of a Christian family and its hope of God's help· C.67, C.68, C.69, C.70, C.71, C.72, C.73.
C.66 and C.67, in the corridor to which there is entry from the street, are likely to refer to the owner and his wife; the Hesychios of C.66 may recur in C.69, more probably in C.70 as Hesychios the Libyarch; the other persons are perhaps his daughters, daughters-in-law and granddaughters.
The Hesychii are certainly connected with the homonym(s) in C.43, C.65, C.74 and C.749. Hesychios the Libyarch (presumably president of the provincial council) should not be identified with a friend and correspondent of Synesius (PLRE II, Hesychios 5).
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.a, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.a, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 148, A.i. whence SEG 30.1785.1.a, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1a; Venturini, 2013 no. 59.a; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 168.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
