Boundary marker
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 54-55
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Bibliography

[...], 32 and plate LXVI, whence [...] 27.1131, [...] 1977.845, PIR addenda.A.0082

[...] restituit διὰ Λουκίου Ἀκιλίου Στράβωνος τοῦ ἰδί ου πρεσβευτοῦ ὅρους διακατεχομένους ὑπὸ ἰδιωτῶν Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων ἀποκατέστησεν

Translations

[Presumably the emperor Nero] restored. [End of Latin text] By the action of Loukios Akilios Strabon Lucius Acilius Strabo, his personal envoy, he restored to the Roman People the boundaries of the estates which had been occupied by private persons.

Commentary

It is unlikely that the stone came from far away and it implies, therefore, the presence of ager publicus nearby.

A boundary stone from a series defining the limits of estates belonging to the Roman people, set up probably in the first year of Nero's reign, see on A.50. A Latin version of the Greek text given in A.50 preceded what survives here, either above or on another face; most other stones in the series carried a full text of the Greek version, as in A.50, but here only the end is given.

For Acilius Strabo see PIR2 A 0082, and addenda; he was active in Cyrenaica under Claudius and Nero: A.25, A.50, A.68, C.434, C.748, M.125, M.141, M.143, M.153, M.172, M.238, M.251, M.275, and perhaps M.68; for his appointment see on M.141.