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 a surface of black mud, w:
0.55 x h:
0.25.
Letters:
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Fountain of Apollo: 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.
Italian translation
Translation by:
Essendo sacerdote di Apollo Ctiste Pompeio Granio Magno, M... entrò nel nynfeo coi fratelli...
English translation
Translation by: Editors
In the priesthood of Apollo the Founder of Pompeius Granius Magnus, M- entered into the nymphaeum [ . . . ] with his brother [ . . .
Commentary
For commentary on this series see on C.336.
l.2 There is no instance of ktistes/founder in the formal title of the eponymous priest of Apollo that is dated earlier than CE 176; see C.306.
Line 3: For the Nymphaeum see on C.352.
Line 4: Oliverio read the plural, ἀδελφῶν, but his photograph, although very difficult to decipher, appears to show τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ; family groups appear not uncommonly in graffiti of this type.
Bibliography: Line 1, Beechey, 1828, 555; complete text Oliverio, 1927a, 40, p.230, and photograph tav.XXXVI, fig.12 , whence Boehringer, 1929 399, Vitali, 1932, 85, SEG 9.278, PHI 324127.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, drawings and photographs (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).