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M.205. Visitors' records

Description: A rock-cut chamber (A), whose walls are inscribed with , M.204 and M.205, IGCyr 51800 IGCyr 529800
Text: Cut or scratched on patches of plaster at various unspecified points on the walls.
Letters: Lunate omega, epsilon, sigma

Date: First century BCE - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Wadi Bu Nabeh, Bu Darag. Recorded by Ferri; we could not find them. He noted also "graffiti arabi" which again we did not find.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Πτολε[μαῖοϲ]
Διόδωροϲ
ἦλ[θον] οἱ ΙΤΙΑΝΟ
ii
Ν
iii
ΙΗ
iv
[...]ΗΝΙΩΙ Μ
v
ἦλ[θον?]
Μ̣[.]ἧκα
ΜΙΥΛΩ̣ΝΙ

Diplomatic

i
ΠΤΟΛΕ[.....]
ΔΙΟΔΩΡΟϹ
ΗΛ[...]ΟΙΙΤΙΑΝΟ
ii
Ν
iii
ΙΗ
iv
[···]ΗΝΙΩΙΜ
v
ΗΛ[...]
.[·]ΗΚΑ
ΜΙΥΛ.ΝΙ

Apparatus

i.3: Omitted by Ferri ἦλ[θον] οἱ ΙΤΙΑ/Ϲ - - SEG
iii: ης Ferri, 1922
v: ηλ . . . Ferri, 1922; Ἦλ[θ -- / -- ΙΙ ἧκα Μικλωνι[-... SEG

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): Ptolemaios, Diodoros, they came [ . . .; (ii-iv): (Not usefully translatable); (i): ?They came [ . . . ] ?I have come here [ . . . ]

Commentary

Clearly the graffiti of visitors.

Bibliography: Ferri, 1922, 4, fig. 16, whence SEG 9.736, SEG 9.737; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).