Description: Four fragments of plaster moulding; a w:
0.085 x h:
0.03,
b w:
0.06 x h:
0.055, c w:
0.025 x h:
0.02,
d w:
0.08 x h:
0.03
Text: Painted in black on the plaster, apparently from one text or group of texts.
Letters: Carefully written in paint; ave. 0.01; lunate epsilon, cursive delta; line above the abbreviation in b, and perhaps above
the first letter of d.
Date: Sixth century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Ras al-Hilal, Church, among debris in the north west room (Room C);
excavated in 1961 .
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
a: (Cross) Indiction 5 [ . . .
b: . . . ] ?the church [ . . .
c and d (not translatable)
Commentary
For the building, probably of the sixth century, see Ward-Perkins, op. cit, 326-341
Ιn a the final letter may be Ε or Ϲ. The superscript bar presumably indicates an abbreviation or contraction.
b: ναός is well attested for a church building.
In d. interpretation depends on how much is abbreviated.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1964, A.1; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 337.1a.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).