Description: A column h:
2.72 on a rectangular base h:
0.5. There is a taper of 0.59 to 0.57 from base to summit.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Second century; well cut, 0.12 (line 1) then 0.07-0.09.
Date: CE 118
Findspot:
.
Cyrene:
Outside the Baths of Trajan; found in 1933.
Original location: Cyrene-Apollonia road, Mile I.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (2008)
Apparatus
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Line 6 ff.): . . . stellte die Strasse wider her, die im jüdischen Aufstand aufgewühlt und zerstört worden war, durch Soldaten der . . . Kohorte
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Emperor Caesar son of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus), holding tribunician power for the second time, consul [?for the third time] , restored the road which had been destroyed and ruined by the Jewish revolt, through soldiers of the [?] cohort [ . . .
Commentary
Discussion and bibliography, Barron, loc.cit.
For a similar milestone on hte same road see M.223.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1950, 4; Applebaum, 1950, D.4, AE 1951.208, whence EDH 021424, and Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 25, C.Barron in Berthelot, 2018; discussed, Boatwright, 2000, 177; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 195.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. View (2008, H.Walda)