Description: Outcrop of natural rock, on which texts are cut more or less roughly,
in a series of different hands, with dates ranging from 15/16 to 52 CE: M.3, M.4,
M.5, M.6, M.7, M.8,
M.9, M.10, M.11, M.12,
M.13, M.14, M.15, M.16,
M.17, M.18, M.19, M.20,
M.21, M.22, M.23, M.24,
M.25, M.26, and perhaps M.27. They may be described as graffiti
although the surviving example and the photographs show that their production often involved much
more effort than the normal graffito.
Text: Incised on the surface (w:
0.75),
without a frame.
Letters: Lunate sigma, L for ἔτουϲ.
Date: First century CE
Findspot: South of Berenike:
Beside the ancient road from Corniclanum/Ajdabia,
leading south to the oasis of Gialo; recorded in 1923.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Now covered by modern houses.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
... ?(scil. son)] of Iason, [ . . . ] Pol[- . . . Year ?28.
Commentary
For general introduction see M.3.
Line 1 Clearly Ἰάϲονοϲ, a locally favoured name; the case suggests that it is a patronymic, but Ferri shows nothing missing before it.
Lines 4-6. There appears to be a name (or the end of a name) followed by a date.
Line 6: It is not clear whether or not a part of the figure is written with the sign for ἔτουϲ; it is too uncertain for interpretation.
Bibliography: Ferri, 1926, 13, with a drawing, p.380, whence SEG 9.785.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).