Description: Ashlar blocks in the wall of the fortress; other blocks are inscribed with
M.56, M.58, M.59, M.60, M.61, M.62, M.63.
Text: Graffiti, to the left of the door; several too high to measure
Letters: a: lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, bar above the abbreviation; b: lunate sigma, cursive omega; c: 0.05-0.08,
lunate sigma, lunate epsilon; d: capitals; e: lunate sigma; f: 0.02-0.05, lunate sigma; g: square sigma, lunate epsilon.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
Zawyiet Msus,
in the Roman fort, on the west wall of the tower; first recorded in 1950
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (re-examined in 1969, 1970)
c: [Ἰ]ούλιος Τέρτιος ΤΥΡΤΙ [ . . / Goodchild, 1953; Τορκουᾶτος SEG
f: Ἰούλιος ΑΜΑΥ [ . . . Goodchild, 1953
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): L(oukios) Antonios Romanos, soldier (i.e. L(ucius) Antonius Romanus); (b): T(itos) Petronios (i.e. T(itus) Petronius ) [ . . . ; (c): Ioulios (i.e. Julius) Epaphrodeitos [ . . . ; (d): (Not usefully translatable); (e): Poplios Niger (i.e. Publius Niger) [ . . .; (f): Iolios (i.e. Julius) [. . -]einos, cavalryman; (g): [ . . . ] Ioulios (i.e. Julius), cavalryman [ . . . ;
Commentary
For these inscriptions see further on M.56.
Bibliography: c, f, Goodchild, 1953 Appendix, 9 and 4, p. 76, whence SEG 13.620; reprinted, Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976, 207; g, Reynolds, 1971a, 9, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.794, SEG 26.1851, PHI 324742, AE 1974.685
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IX.93, from negative)
Fig. 2. View of the right side of the wall (Reynolds IX.93, from print)