Description: Fragmentary sandstone block .
Text: Graffiti on one face, probably cut before the stones were quarried as blocks,
in at least four hands; i upside down to ii.
Letters: i: lines 1, 2, 0.085-0.05, lunate omega and probably sigma; ii: line 1, 0.05, lunate sigma; line 3., 0. 0.065, lunate sigma;
ll 3, 4, 0.04-0.08
Date: First to second century
Findspot: South of Berenike:
Corniclanum/Ajdabia, re-used in a building.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Itthalamon, soldier [ . . . ] (followed by further names)
Commentary
i.1: Ἰτθαλάμμων is a local name, and if the following line is part of the same text, it becomes clear that there was local recruiting into the unit which originally came from Syria.
Bibliography: Mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 21
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).