IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.213. Names of visitors

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.212; each entry in a different hand.
Letters: First to second centuries CE; smaller letters than the others on this wall; standard forms.

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

Ἀλέξανδρος
Γή[τ]υλος
θεόδοτο[ς]
Φια̣λή̣σων
5Εὐφροσύνη
Σωσίας
Σ[..]ίας
Εὐδαίμων
ΕΜ̣[..]Θ[.]ΣΑΝ
10Παυσ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ
ΓΗ[.]ΥΛΟΣ
ΘΕΟΔΟΤΟ[.]
ΦΙ.Λ.ΣΩΝ
5ΕΥΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ
ΣΩΣΙΑΣ
Σ[··]ΙΑΣ
ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ
Ε.[··]Θ[·]ΣΑΝ
10ΠΑΥΣ[---]
[------]

Apparatus

3: Θεοδοτίω[ν] Ferri, 1922
6-7: σῴς/σίας Ferri, 1922; Σωσ/σίας SEG
9: Perhaps as Ferri thought, ἤλθοσαν; but the reading is not at all clear and another name seems very possible.
10: Not reported by Ferri

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Alexandros, Gaitulos, Theodotos, Phialeson, Euphrosyne, Sosias, S[ . . ]ias, Eudaimon, [ . . . ] Paus[ . . .

Commentary

The texts are visitors' graffiti.

Bibliography: Ferri, 1922, 8ο, fig. 19, whence SEG 9.766; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).