Description: Wall of a rock-cut tomb chamber,
with M.273, M.274, GVCyr 38.
Text: Painted above a prepared panel, which contains no text.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene
Bir Tarakanet; found in
1959, in a rock-cut chamber on the east side of the Wadi Tarakenet.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: presumably for Χ(ρίστον) Μ(αρία) Γ(έννᾳ); or Χ(ρίστος ἐκ) Μ(αρίας) Γ(εννηθείς); or Χ(ρίστος) Μ(αρίας) Γ(όνοςEnglish translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Mary bore Christ (or) Christ born of Mary (or) Christ, the Son of Mary.
Commentary
For discussion of the acronym ΧΜΓ see C. Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (2004), Section 8.20
Bibliography: Goodchild-Reynolds, 1962 no.3.3, pp. 41-46 and pl. XXIIIc; SEG 20.705.a, PHI 324470; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 416.3.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).