IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.68. Christian invocation

Description: Mosaic floor with a series of panels, with C.66, C.67, C.68, C.69, C.70, C.71, C.72, C.73.
Text: Red mosaic lettering, within a circular panel (0.56).
Letters: Line 1, 0.105; line 2, 0.08; lines 3-5, 0.07; square sigma.

Date: Fourth century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: House of Hesychios: on the floor of the West corridor. Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

θεὸϲ
βοηθὸϲ
Λαμπροτύ-
χητι ϲὺν
5τέκνοιϲ

Diplomatic

ΘΕΟϹ
ΒΟΗΘΟϹ
ΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΥ
ΧΗΤΙϹΥΝ
5ΤΕΚΝΟΙϹ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003

God is (?be) the help of Lamprotyches with (scil. his) children.

Commentary

For this group of texts see on C.66.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.c, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, A.iii. whence SEG 30.1785.1.c, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1c, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450; Venturini, 2013 no. 60.1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View (Reynolds, II.40.1)