Dedication of Hydreuma at Sikayt by the Prefect APISberenike.apis.120(EG-Ber)120o.berenike.2.120105712105712o.berenike.2.120o.berenike;2;120Inv. BE00 0409-U-120, SK01.005Dedicatory Inscription for a Well8 lines of text, traces of red paint remain.Inscribed version of a circular letter sent by the Prefect L. Iulius Ursus, dedicating the sinking of a well at a fortified site at Sikayt (not to be confused with Sikait near Mons Smaragdus).See R. S. Bagnall, A. Bulow-Jacobsen, and H. Cuvigny, "Security and Water on Egypt's Desert Roads: New Light on the Prefect Iulius Ursus and Praesidia Building under Vespasian," JRA 14 (2001) 325-333.See also S. E. Sidebotham and W. Wendrich, Berenike 1999-2000. Report of the 1999 and 2000 Excavations at Berenike and the Suvery of the Egyptian Eastern Desert (Los Angeles 2005).Latin1 triangular pediment, max. length 2.46 m; max. height 1.07 m; max. thickness 0.17 m.A.D. 76/77This inscription was discovered in Sikayt.
This inscription is currently stored in a magazine of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Quft.
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishLatinInscriptionsDedicationWellsPrefectFort
In the 9th year of Imperator Caesar Augustus Vespasianus, L. Iulius Ursus, prefect of Egypt, returning from Berenike gave instructions for a well to be sought in this place. When it had been found, he ordered a fort and cistern to be constructed, under the direction of M. Trebonius Valens, prefect of the desert region of Berenike.