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M.34. Fragment

Description: Fragmentary sandstone block (w: 0.58 x h: 0.54).
Text: Inscribed on one face, at the lower edge
Letters: 0.125; lunate sigma.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: South of Berenike: Corniclanum/Ajdabia, re-used in the Fatimid Mosque
Original location: Perhaps from a fort.
Last recorded location: Findspot: lying loose.

Interpretive

( vac. 3 lines)
[---]ΧΙϹΔΑ[---]

Diplomatic

     vacat
[---]ΧΙϹΔΑ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Perhaps a name and patronymic, e.g. the local and indigenous name [Δά]χιϲ Δά[χιοϲ].

Bibliography: Whitehouse, 1971-1972 RSIS III.14, but without texts.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.18)

   Fig. 2. M.37, with part of M.34 (Joyce Reynolds, II.21)

   Fig. 3. Face (Whitehouse, FILM4NG12LR)