Description: A rock-cut chamber (B), whose walls are inscribed; on the east wall M.207,
M.208 and M.209; on the south M.210,
M.211,
M.212 and M.213; on the north wall M.214.
Text: Graffiti on the south wall:to the left of
M.211, M.212, M.213; each entry in a different hand.
1, to the upper left; 2 to the right of 3; 3 to the right of 4.
Letters: First to second centuries CE; Sizes varying; standard forms; roughly cut.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Wadi Bu Nabeh, Bu Darag.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
2.ii.1: [Οὐ]λπία Σ[ε]ρήνη Ferri, 1922 ; [Οὐ]λπίας [Ἰ]ρήνης suggested by Tod in SEG
3.ii.2: εὐτύχι Ferri, 1922
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(2.i): Alexandros; (2.ii): (i.e. Place?) of Helbia Irene: ?she came; (2.iii): Artemis(i)a; (2.iv): Apoll-; (2.v): Melanippos; (2.vi): Sostratos; (3.i): . . . ] Zenon (scil. son) of Zenon; (3.ii): Alexandros; Sostratos (scil. son) of Eutuchos.
Commentary
The text are visitors' graffiti; the relationships between them are far from clear.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXIV.2, with Letronne, p.395-6, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5149; Ferri, 1922, 8α-ι, fig. 20, whence SEG 9.753, SEG 9.754, SEG 9.755 SEG 9.756, SEG 9.757, SEG 9.758, SEG 9.759, SEG 9.760; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXIV)