Description: Limestone stele (w:
0.39 x h:
1.89 x d:
0.25)
Text: Inscribed on two faces, b to the left of a; text on side a ends 0.77 from the lower edge; text on side b ends 1.21 from lower
edge.
There is one large hole in the middle of side a and many other smaller holes, which created several irregularities
in the inscription, and in particular the space between lines 22 and 23 of side a.
Letters: 0.04-0.05.
Date: 56 CE
Findspot:
Apollonia, to the west; found by Breyek Mufta Kuainin in 1990.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum, (1997) near the French dighouse.
Interpretive
a
Nero Claudius
Claudi Caesaris,
Aug(usti) Germanici f(ilius)
Germanici ( vac. 1) Cae-
5saris n(epos), Ti(beri) [C]aesa[ris]
Aug(usti) pron(epos), ḍịụ[i]
Aug(usti) abn(epos), Caes[ar]
Aug(ustus) Germani[cus]
Imp(erator) per L(ucium) Acil[ium]
10Strabonem l[egatum]
suum fines [oc-]
cupatos a prịụạ[tis]
P(opulo) R(omano) restitui[t]
( vac. 1 line)
Νέρων Κλαύδιος,
15Κλα̣υδίου Καί-
σαρος Σεβαστοῦ
Γερμανικοῦ ὑὸς,
Γερμανικοῦ Καί-
σαρος ὑωνός, Τι(βερίου)
20Κ̣α̣ί̣σσαρος Σεβα-
στοῦ κ[αὶ θ]εο-
ῦ Σεβ[ασ]τοῦ
( vac. 1 line)
ἔκγονος
( vac. )
b
Κα<ῖ>σ[αρ Σε-]
25βαστὸς [Γε-]
[ρ]μανικ[ος]
[Α]ὐτο-
[κ]ράτωρ διὰ
[Λ(ουκίου)] Ἀκιλίου
30[Σ]τράβωνος
[τ]οῦ ἰδίου
πρεσβευ-
τ̣οῦ ὅρους
διακατεχο-
35μένους ὑπὸ
ἰδιωτῶν Δή-
μῳ Ῥωμαίω-
ν ἀποκατέ-
στησεν
( vac. )
Diplomatic
a
NEROCLAUDIUS
CLAUDICAESARIS
AUGGERMANICIF
GERMANICI CAE
5SARISNTI[.]AESA[...]
AUGPRON...[.]
AUGABNCAES[..]
AUGGERMANI[...]
IMPPERLACIL[...]
10STRABONEML[......]
SUUMFINES[..-]
CUPATOSAPR...[...]
PRRESTITUI[.]
vacat
ΝΕΡΩΝΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
15ΚΛ.ΥΔΙΟΥΚΑΙ
ΣΑΡΟΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΥΥΟΣ
ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΥΚΑΙ
ΣΑΡΟΣΥΩΝΟΣΤΙ
20...ΣΣΑΡΟΣΣΕΒΑ
ΣΤΟΥΚ[...]ΕΟ
ΥΣΕΒ[..]ΤΟΥ
vacat
ΕΚΓΟΝΟΣ
vacat
b
ΚΑΣ[....-]
25ΒΑΣΤΟΣ[..-]
[.]ΜΑΝΙΚ[..]
[.]ΥΤΟ
[.]ΡΑΤΩΡΔΙΑ
[.]ΑΚΙΛΙΟΥ
30[.]ΤΡΑΒΩΝΟΣ
[.]ΟΥΙΔΙΟΥ
ΠΡΕΣΒΕΥ
.ΟΥΟΡΟΥΣ
ΔΙΑΚΑΤΕΧΟ
35ΜΕΝΟΥΣΥΠΟ
ΙΔΙΩΤΩΝΔΗ
ΜΩΡΩΜΑΙΩ
ΝΑΠΟΚΑΤΕ
ΣΤΗΣΕΝ
vacat
The first three lines of a, and the text on b were not recorded in the earlier edition.; Gsermanicus Mohamed, 1996 the unexpected S is actually a hole in the surface.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(Latin): Nero Claudius son of Claudius, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of [Tiberius Caesar]
Augustus, great-great grandson of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, accalimed imperator, by (scil. the action of) Lucius Acilius Strabo his personal envoy, restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of
the estates) which had been occupied by private persons.
(Greek): Nero Claudius son of Claudius, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of [Tiberius Caesar]
Augustus, and great-great grandson of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, acclaimed imperator, by (scil. the action of) Lucius Acilius Strabo his personal envoy, restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of
the estates) which had been occupied by private persons.
Bibliography: Mohamed, 1996, 129-30, whence SEG 46.2189, AE 1995.1633, whence EDH 051511 PIR addenda.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds), from stone (Dobias-Lalou).
Images
Fig. 1. Face a
Fig. 2. Face a
Fig. 3. Face a
Fig. 4. Face b
