IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.8. Presence inscription of a Syrian

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: 1.00).
Letters: Lunate sigma, square sigma.

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.

Interpretive

Διονυ[ϲ]ό[δωρο]ϲ
Ἀντιόχου̣
Ϲύροϲ

Diplomatic

ΔΙΟΝΥ[.]Ο[....]Ϲ
ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟ.
ϹΥΡΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Dionysodoros son of Antiochos, a Syrian.

Commentary

For general introduction see M.3.

Bibliography: Ferri, 1926, 6, with a drawing and a photograph, p.375, whence SEG 9.778
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).