Description: Mosaic floor with a series of panels, with C.66, C.67, C.68,
C.69, C.70, C.71,
C.72, C.73.
Text: Mosaic lettering within a rectangular panel, width 4.21
Letters: 0.24; square sigma, cursive omega
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: House of Hesychios: on the floor of the South corridor.
Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
God is (?be) the help of Aloipo and (scil. her) children.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
God is (?be) the help of Alypos and (scil. his) children.
Commentary
For this group of texts see on C.66.
For the feminine name Ἀλυπώ see C.423 and LGPN, s.v. (8 examples, at Cyrene and Bouthrotos). Dobias-Lalou (loc. cit.) prefers to read the masculine Ἀλυπώς (not in LGPN, but 79 examples of Ἄλυπος)
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.b, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.b, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 148, A.ii, whence SEG 30.1785.1.b, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1b, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450; Venturini, 2013 no. 59.b
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
