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: Black mosaic lettering, within a circular panel (0.50),
beside C.70
Letters: Line 1, 0.09; lines 2-5, 0.07; square sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: House of Hesychios: on the floor of the West corridor.
Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
2-3: βοηθεῖ Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003; βοήθει Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Christ, help this house.
Commentary
For this group of texts see on C.66.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.f, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.f, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, A.vi. whence SEG 30.1785.1.f, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 172.1f, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).