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.
Apparatus
3: Θεοδοτίω[ν] Ferri, 19226-7: 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).