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M.212. Visitor's record

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 right of M.211; each entry in a different hand
Letters: First to second centuries CE Sizes varying; occasional square sigma; 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.

Interpretive

Πήϲαμοϲ
Ϲτράτων ἥκαϲι
( vac. 2) ΚΙΣ
Βερενίκη

5Ἀλέξανδροϲ
Ἡρακλεία
ἥκα[σιν]

Diplomatic

ΠΗϹΑΜΟϹ
ϹΤΡΑΤΩΝΗΚΑϹΙ
    ΚΙΣ
ΒΕΡΕΝΙΚΗ

5ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΑ
ΗΚΑ[...]

Apparatus

Lines 1-3, and the ends of lines 4 and 5 were read by Ferri; they are no longer visible. ; . . . ]ηφαμος Ferri, 1922; Πήσαμος ? SEG
2-3: στρατονι/κις Ferri, 1922; Στράτων ἥκοσι ? SEG

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Pesamos, Straton, they have come; Berenike, Alexandros, Herakleia, they have come.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Ferri, 1922, 8ν-ξ, fig. 20, whence SEG 9.764, SEG 9.765; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone and from drawing (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).