IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.69. 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 (0.52), beside C.68.
Letters: Lines 1, 2, 5, 0.08; lines 3, 4, 0.07; square sigma, cursive omega.

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
Ἡϲυχίῳ
διὰ παν-
5τόϲ

Diplomatic

ΘΕΟϹ
ΒΟΗΘΟϹ
ΗϹΥΧΙΩ
ΔΙΑΠΑΝ
5ΤΟϹ

English translation

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

God is (?be) a help to Hesychios in all circumstances.

Commentary

For this group of texts see on C.66.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.d, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.d, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, A.iv. whence SEG 30.1785.1.d, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1d; Venturini, 2013 no. 60.2
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.69 (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2004: MFA 04/11/17)