Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed above the door, on a worn surface, lost at the left side; probably within a rectangular panel
outlined by an incised line; M.67 is on the abutting wall.
Letters: Not datable, lunate sigma, roughly cut in several hands. i, ii, 0.09 – 0.10; iii, 0.14.
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
Suani el Murabbah (Guarshia), a little south of Bengazi,
in a quarry, with M.67; first recorded in 1959.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1968)..
Apparatus
iii.1: It would be possible to take iii. as beginning with the abbreviated Latin nomen Φλ(άουιοϲ)English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): . . . Ma]ximos [ . . . (ii and iii: not usefully translatable)
Commentary
There are at least three ancient quarries in the neighbourhood, indicating the presence of a sizeable collection of solidly constructed buildings in antiquity, which would be justified by the marked fertility of the district; but modern construction has destroyed most traces of it. There is, however, an ancient well, and some large ancient buildings blocks can be seen re-used in modern houses. Such names as can be read show a mixture of transliterated Latin and Greek.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (1968, Joyce Reynolds, I. 1)
Fig. 2. Text (1968, Joyce Reynolds, I. 2)