Description: One, in opus sectile, of a series of floor panels, with C.66, C.67, C.68,
C.69, C.70, C.71,
C.72, C.73.
Text: Black opus sectile lettering set within a rectangular panel (w:
0.68 x h:
0.58)
Letters: Line 1, 0.09; lines2-3, 0.08; square sigma, square omega, without middle stroke.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Hesychios:
In the opus sectile floor of a room to the East of the peristyle. 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 the Young (scil. er).
Commentary
For this group of texts see on C.66.
In line 3, ΝΑΙΩ has apparently been corrected to ΝΕΩ. The epithet would suggest a son and heir.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.h, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.h, PHI 324448; illustration, Goodchild, 1971, plate 32; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, B. whence SEG 30.1785.2, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 173.2h; Venturini, 2013 no. 58; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 168. A further image available at BSR: WP[PHN]-E-Lib1359.39A.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Reynolds, Ι.88)