IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.537. Milestone of Claudius

Description: A brown limestone column h: 2.53 on a rectangular base (w: 0.65 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.65). There is a taper of 0.59 to 0.56 from base to summit.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Regular, 0.06.

Date: CE 45-46

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, a little south of the cemetery of Sidi Mohammed Basjuda; found in 1947.
Original location: Cyrene-Ptolemais road, Mile 1.
Last recorded location: Findspot, re-erected

Interpretive

Ti(berius) Claudius
Caesar Aug(ustus)
Germanicus
p(ontifex) m(aximus) trib(unicia) pot(estate) V[I]
5 imp(erator) XI p(ater) p(atriae) co(n)s(ul) [III ]
designat(us) IIII
restituit ann[o]
[.. ? .. C]aeserni Veienton[is]
( vac. ) proco(n)s(ulis) ( vac. )
10 [Cretae et Cyr]en[arum]
( vac. ) I ( vac. )

Diplomatic

TICLAUDIUS
CAESARAUG
GERMANICUS
PMTRIBPOTV[.]
5IMPXIPPCOS[...]
DESIGNATIIII
RESTITUITANN[.]
[.. ? ...]AESERNIVEIENTON[..]
      PROCOS      
10[...........]EN[....]
          I          

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Ti(berius) Ckaudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Chief Priest, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, acclaimed imperator eleven times, father of the country, consul [for the third time], designated for the fourth time, restored the road in the year [ . . . ] when Caesernius Veiennto was proconsul of Creta and Cyrene. (scil. Mile) One.

Commentary

The date is either 25 January 44 and 24 January 45, or 25 January 45 and 24 January 46 or 25 January 46 and 24 January 47.

For Caesernius Veiento see RE Suppl. 14 (1974) 81 s.v. Caesernius 6.

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1950, 3, pp. 84-6, pl. XXVII, fig.1; whence AE 1951.207, EDH HD021421.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Goodchild).

Images

None available (2020).


Full EpiDoc XML