Description: Two ashlar blocks in the wall
of the fortress; other blocks are inscribed with M.56,
M.57, M.58, M.59,
M.60, M.61, M.62.
Text: Graffiti
Letters: i. 0.04; square sigma; ii. 0.07 – 0.08, perhaps two hands, but all letters are very uncertain.
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)
Apparatus
i.3: σεράριος Goodchild, 1953ii.1: ΚΛΛΛΙΕΤΙ Goodchild, 1953 whence; Καλλιέτης? rejected by Robert, op. cit. SEG
ii.2: ΣΥΜΜ[ . . . Goodchild, 1953
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): Epigonos, tesserarius;
(b): ?Kalliete[s . . . ;
Commentary
For these inscriptions see further on M.56.
ii.1: The letters are clear, but as Robert pointed out, it is unlikely that the epithet, used of Priests of Apollo and others (see Index) is being used here: perhaps a name.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1953 Appendix, 2 and 3 p. 76, whence SEG 13.620; reprinted, Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976 207; i: Reynolds, 1971a, 11, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.794, SEG 26.1853, PHI 324744, AE 1974.685. ii: see Robert, 1960a, 548, n.2.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Block i (Reynolds IX.92)
Fig. 2. Block ii (Reynolds IX.91)