Description: Ashlar blocks in the wall of the fortress; other blocks are inscribed with M.56,
M.57, M.59, M.60, M.61, M.62, M.63.
Text: Graffiti, in a specially prepared area.
Letters: 0.03 – 0.45, square sigma.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
Zawyiet Msus,
in the Roman fort, on the wall of the enclosure north of the tower; first recorded in 1950 (b. was never found again).
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (re-examined in 1969, 1970)
Apparatus
a.2: Φ could be Χ; Κ ; Α could be Υ ; ΙΟ could be Ν; ΛΙEnglish translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): Poplios (i.e. Publius) ?Phaniotas; (b): Poplios ?Lopos (i.e. Publius ?Lupus)
Commentary
For these inscriptions see further on M.56.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1953 Appendix 1, p. 76, whence SEG 13.620; reprinted, Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976 207.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View of the left side of the wall
Fig. 2. View of the right side of the wall