Description: Rock-cut channel, with multiple informal inscriptions, C.336 to C.392; some are traced in the mud that coats the walls of the channel, others have been modelled by attaching strips of clay or
mud to the rock.
Text: Graffito on an area of smoothed mud
(w:
0.60 x h:
0.40).
Letters: Mixrure of miscule and majuscule, carefully drawn; 0.023 - 0.032.
Date: CE 285
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Fountain of Apollo, in
rock-cut channel behind the fountain; first described in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916.
Original location: Fountain of Apollo.
Last recorded location:
Fountain of Apollo. no longer accessible.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
In the first year of Diocletian and Maximian Caesars, in the Nymphaeum [ . . .
Commentary
For commentary on this series see on C.336.
Line 3: CE 285 the first year of the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian, also the date of C.354, C.356: they also appear in C.353.
Bibliography: First mentioned in 1822, but not fully recorded until 1916. Oliverio, 1927a, 27, p.224, with a drawing, p.227 tav.IV, fig.14, whence Boehringer, 1929 399, SEG 9.266, PHI 324115.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).