IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.69. Mile XV: Milestone of the First Tetrarchy

Description: Half-column, with flattened reverse face, of brown limestone (h: 1.45 x diam.: 0.50).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.03-0.04.

Date: CE 293-305

Findspot: Apollonia: Found near Apollonia, with A.70, near the modern Christian cemetery, one Roman mile from mile-station XIV.
Original location: Cyrene to Apollonia to Derna road, Mile XV.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum, 2008.

Interpretive

D(ominis) N(ostris)
Dioclet[iano]
e[t] Maximia[no]
imperatori[bus]
5et Constantio
et Maximiano
Caesari[bus]
( vac. 3)XV ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

DDN[.]
DIOCLET[....]
E[.]MAXIMIA[..]
IMPERATORI[...]
5ETCONSTANTIO
ETMAXIMIANO
CAESARI[...]
      XV      

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

For our Lords, Diocletian and Maximian, Emperors, and Constantius and Maximian (Galerius), Caesars: (scil. Mile) 15.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mentioned by Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 246; published by Goodchild, 1950, 10a; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 284.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department E 366)

   Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 4. Face, upper part (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 5. Face, upper part (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 6. Face, upper part (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 7. Face, centre (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 8. Face, lower part (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 9. Left face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 10. Right face (2008, H.Walda)