Description: Brown limestone stele.
Text: Inscribed on two faces. a. Inscribed field (w:
0.70 x h:
0.90).
b. Inscribed field w:
0.50 x h:
1.00, a large chip on the left side.
Letters: A. line 1, 0.11, line 2, 0.09; lines 3f, 0.06. B. lines 1, 2, 0.05-0.06; lines 3f., 0.04-0.05.
Date: 72/73 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
City wall, not far from C.429,
C.428.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
a: (Latin) Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul four times, through his personal envoy Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus restored (scil. this land) to the Roman People.
b: (Greek) Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul four times, through his personal envoy Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus restored (scil. this land) to the Roman People.
Commentary
Cf also in the same area nos. C.429, C.428 - but these must refer to a different parcel of land which both describe as the Ptol(o)maeum, for not only is the name absent here but the date is different.
Line a.4, b.5: Vespasian was trib. Pot. IIII from the 1st Jan. - 31st Dec. 73; the stone was erected therefore in the first half of 73.
Q. Paconius Agrippinus, for whom see PIR2 P 0027, was active in Cyrenaica under Vespasian, 71-74 CE: see C.147, C.428, C.429, C.430, C.438, C.747, M.68, M.165, M.229, M.230, M.232, M.238, M.239, P.397.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
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