Description: Brown limestone stele
(w:
0.64 x h:
1.58 x d:
0.50).
Text: Inscribed on two faces, both chipped along the edges and broken below,
Latin on one face and Greek on the other face, to the left.
Letters: No measurements: the two first lines of a in larger letters; Leaves for stops in a, marking abbreviations and numbers.
Date: 71 CE, second half
Findspot:
Cyrene:
City wall in the area of the Polveriera,
not far from C.428,
C.430; found
in 1915.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
Interpretive
a
[I]mp(erator) Caesar
Vespasianus
Aug(ustus) pont(ifex) max(imus)
tribunic(ia) pot(estate) III
5 [I]mp(erator) VIII p(ater) p(atriae) co(n)s(ul)
[I]II desig(natus) IIII per Q(uintum)
[P]aconium Ag[r]ip-
[p]inum legatum
su[um] Populo R(omano)
10[Ptolom]aeuṃ res-
[titui]t b
[Αὐ]τοκράτω[ρ]
[Κα]ῖσαρ Οὐεσ-
[π]ασιανός
[ἀ]ρχιερεὺς μέ-
5[γισ]τος δημαρχ[ι-]
[κῆς] ἐξουσίας τ̣[ὸ]
[γ´ Αὐ]τοκράτωρ (sic)
[τὸ] η´ πατὴρ πα[τ-]
ρίδος ὕπατος
10 [τὸ] γ´ δεδειγμέ-
[νος] τὸ δ´ διὰ Κ(οΐντου)
[Π]ακονίου Ἀγρι[π-]
[π]είνου ἰδίου [π-]
[ρ]εσβευτοῦ Δ(ήμῳ) Ῥ(ωμαίων)
15 [τὸ] Π[τυ]λυμαῖο[ν]
[ἀπ]εκ[ατ]έστησε[ν]
Diplomatic
a
[.]MPCAESAR
VESPASIANUS
AUGPONTMAX
TRIBUNICPOTIII
5[.]MPVIIIPPCOS
[.]IIDESIGIIIIPERQ
[.]ACONIUMAG[.]IP
[.]INUMLEGATUM
SU[..]POPULOR
10[......]AEU.RES
[.....]T b
[..]ΤΟΚΡΑΤΩ[.]
[..]ΙΣΑΡΟΥΕΣ
[.]ΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ
[.]ΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΜΕ
5[...]ΤΟΣΔΗΜΑΡΧ[.-]
[...]ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣ.[.]
[...]ΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ(sic)
[..]ΗΠΑΤΗΡΠΑ[.-]
ΡΙΔΟΣΥΠΑΤΟΣ
10[..]ΓΔΕΔΕΙΓΜΕ
[...]ΤΟΔΔΙΑΚ
[.]ΑΚΟΝΙΟΥΑΓΡΙ[.-]
[.]ΕΙΝΟΥΙΔΙΟΥ[.-]
[.]ΕΣΒΕΥΤΟΥΔΡ
15[..]Π[..]ΛΥΜΑΙΟ[.]
[..]ΕΚ[..]ΕΣΤΗΣΕ[.]
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
a: (Latin) Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, 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 [Ptolem]aion to the Roman People.
b: (Greek) Emperor Caesar Vespasian, 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.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1916a, 165, with illustration, figs. 1, 2, pp. 166, 167, whence SEG 9.165, PHI 324016, AE 1919.91-92, whence EDH HD026844; see also Ferri, 1923, 12, n. 11.
Text constituted from: Transcription; the reading has been supplemented from the photographs (Reynolds).
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