Description: Ashlar blocks in
the wall of the fortress; other blocks are inscribed with M.56, M.57, M.58,
M.60, M.61,
M.62, M.63.
Text: Graffiti: a on one block; to the left a block with b to e; below that a block with e to h.
Letters: a: lunate sigma, cursive omega, ΗΚ in ligature in line 2, L for ἔτους; e: lunate sigma, cursive omega; f: perhaps L for ἔτους;
g: lunate sigma, cursive omega; h: square sigma, L for ἔτους;
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
Zawyiet Msus,
in the Roman fort, on the wall south of the tower, to the right of the door; first recorded in 1950.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (re-examined in 1969 and 1970)
b.1: Ν cut over Θ
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(a). Gaios Ioulios Kαpiton (i.e. Gaius Julius Capito), also called Odysseus, soldier, I came here [ . . . ] year 13.
(b): (Not usefully translatable)
(c): Nikephoros.
(d): Nike[phoros]
(e): Theudoros
(f): Aripachthis, year 13?
(g): [ . . .] soldier [ . . . ]
(h): Year ?, Degmos [ . . . ]
(j): Itthanu[ras . . .
Commentary
For these inscriptions see further on M.56.
Bibliography: a, f, j, Reynolds, 1971a, 1, 7, pp. 65-76, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.794, SEG 26.1843, PHI 324734, SEG 26.1849, PHI 324740, SEG 26.1848, PHI 324739, (a)AE 1974.685.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, left end (Reynolds IX.94)
Fig. 2. Texts d-h (Reynolds IX.96)
Fig. 3. Face, centre (Reynolds IX.95)
Fig. 4. Upper face (Reynolds IX.90)