IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.142. Christian invocation

Description: Wall of a rock-cut feature consisting of two chambers.
Text: Painted to either side of a monogram cross; there are other monogram crosses on the wall of the outer chamber to the right of the entrance (h: 0.33) and on each of the two side wall (h: 0.60 and h: 0.56)
Letters: 0.08; superscript bar over abbreviation, lunate sigma

Date: Fourth-seventh century

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Siret el Giambi, in a rock-cut feature nearby consisting of two chambers; on the wall opposite the door of the smaller chamber; found in 1981
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Θ(εὸ)ϲ βοηθόϲ

Diplomatic

ΘϹΒΟΗΘΟϹ

English translation

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

God (scil. our) help.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 2000, 8, 1495, whence SEG 50.1650; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 411, whence SEG 53.2067, cited Cinalli, 2016, 187.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).