Description: Brown limestone
stele (w:
0.65 x h:
1.45 x d:
0.45).
Text: Inscribed on two
faces, Latin on one face and Greek on the other face, to the left.
The surface, originally rough, has been smoothed for the inscription.
Letters:
Date: 71 CE, second half
Findspot:
Cyrene: East Necropolis, between the hill of Eluet Gassam and the Temple of Zeus, not far from C.429, C.430; found in 1916
and photographed when complete.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Two fragments have been identified in Cyrene Museum.
4,.6: The mason has had to correct letters
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
a: (Latin): [Emperor Caesar Vespasian Au]gustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul three times, designated for a fourth time, through his personal envoy Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus restored the Ptolemaion to the Roman People.
b: (Greek): [Emperor Caesar Ve]spasian, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul three times, designated for a fourth time, through his personal envoy K(ointos) Pakonios Agrippeinos restored the Ptolemaion to the Roman People.
French translation
Translation source: Dobias-Lalou, 2016a
l’empereur César Vespasien Auguste, grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunicienne pour la troisième fois, salué empereur pour la huitième fois, père de la patrie, consul pour la troisième année et désigné pour la quatrième, par l’intermédiaire de son légat Quintus Paconius Agrippinus a fait restituer au peuple romain le Ptolmaeum.
Commentary
Cf. C.429, C.430 from the same area
A moderately competent letterer produced reasonable monumental lettering but had problems with spelling; he was clearly not adept at Latin.
The second half of 71, see on 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.
On Ptolmaeum/Πτυλυμαῖον see on C.429, and C. Dobias-Lalou, art.cit.: the name must describe one of the royal estates claimed for the Populus Romanus.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1916a, 173, with illustration, figs. 3, 4, pp. 174, 175, whence SEG 9.166, PHI 324017, AE 1919.93, whence EDH HD026847, , McCrum/Woodhead (1961) no. 435; see also Ferri, 1923, 12 n. 11. Discussed, ; discussed Struffolino, 2014, 363-4, Dobias-Lalou, 2016a, 53-59
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).