Description: Outcrop of natural rock, on which texts are cut more or less roughly,
in a series of different hands, with dates ranging from 15/16 to 52 CE: M.3, M.4,
M.5, M.6, M.7, M.8,
M.9, M.10, M.11, M.12,
M.13, M.14, M.15, M.16,
M.17, M.18, M.19, M.20,
M.21, M.22, M.23, M.24,
M.25, M.26, and perhaps M.27. They may be described as graffiti
although the surviving example and the photographs show that their production often involved much
more effort than the normal graffito.
Text: Incised on the surface, wihout a frame; no measurements.
Letters: Probably lunate sigma, L for ἔτους.
Date: CE 49-50+
Findspot: South of Berenike:
Beside the ancient road from Corniclanum/Ajdabia,
leading south to the oasis of Gialo; recorded in 1923.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Now covered by modern houses.
Apparatus
2: perhaps Ἀντι[μ]ά[χ]ης; Ἀντί[ο]χ[ος] Ferri, 1926; Ἀντι[π]ά[τ]ρου Cumont, 19273: ἥ[κω . . ?] Ferri, 1926
Commentary
For general introduction see M.3.
Bibliography: Ferri, 1926, 15, with a drawing, p.381, on which Cumont, 1927, whence SEG 9.787.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).