Description: Fragment of a brown limestone stele
(w:
0.42 x h:
0.39 x d:
0.60).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face
Letters: Average 0.04
Date: 71 CE, second half
Findspot:
Cyrene:
rre-used in the area of the Agora;
found in 1916.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[Emperor Caesar Vespasian, holding tribunician power] for the third time, [acclaimed imperator] for the 8th time, father of the country, consul [three times], designated consul [for the fourth time]: through Quintus Paconius Agrippinus [his own] envoy [ . . .
Commentary
Although it is possible, it cannot be taken as certain that the land concerned lay within the city wall; broken as it is, the stone could have been brought from outside with comparative ease.
In line 3 γ is the only figure that corresponds with surviving traces; the date is presumably the second half of 71 as in C.429.
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: Ghislanzoni, 1916a, 176 with illustration, fig. 5, whence SEG 9.167, PHI 324018.
Text constituted from: Transcription, supplemented from the photograph (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).