Description: A rock-cut chamber (A), whose walls are inscribed with
IGCyr 51800, M.204 and M.205
Text: On the north wall; cut or scratched in a layer of plaster. A number of graffiti
have been cut on top of each other which makes a reading often hazardous, even apart from the difficulties arising from the
poor condition of the plaster.
Letters: Probably all Roman, but not more precisely datable. Sizes varying, intermittent lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Wadi Bu Nabeh, Bu Darag.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
i-xv: Ferri's transcriptions, recorded here alongside ours, make more sense of some letters and the fact that we (Goodchild and
Reynolds) were unable to confirm it at many points is in part to be attributed to the deterioration of the plaster since he
saw it. Items reported only by him are underlined; some further items rescorded by us may actually be the same as those reported
as seen only by him.
vii: δροϲ Ferri, 1922
viii.1: Λιβία ἱαρηιια Κλ Ferri, 1922; Λιβία Ἀρήιια ? κλ SEG; αιιααιη jmr
viii.2: ΝΔΑ Ferri, 1922
ix: Ἄντιπας Ferri, 1922
xii,.xiii: Only reported by Ferri
xiii: Ἀριμμάνιο[ς Ferri, 1922; Ἀριμμανίο[υ SEG
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(ii, iii, iv, vi, vii, x, xi, xiv, vv): (Not usefully translatable) (i): Kritol- . . . -lios; (v): Apronios; (viii): ?Livia Areia ?Kl[(audia) ?Seko]nda; (ix): Nikipa; (xii): Chariton . . . Dositheos; (xiii): Gryllos (scil. son) of Arimman.
Commentary
Clearly the graffiti of visitors.
Bibliography: Ferri, 1922, 3, fig. 15, whence SEG 9.729, SEG 9.730, SEG 9.731, SEG 9.732, SEG 9.733, SEG 9.734, SEG 9.735; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).