Description: Lower part of a brown limestone stele damaged above and along the edges
(w:
0.65 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.43).
Text: Inscribed on one face. Presumably the Latin text appeared above the Greek on this face
and the Greek was continued on the right hand face in the lost upper part of the stele. Vacant spaces mark holes avoided by
the cutter; a
lightly incised representation of a palm tree concludes the text.
Letters:
Date: 54-68 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Bu Traba; found in 1967, half-buried on the east bank of
Wadi a little west of the village centre, and just north of the Tolmeita/Tocra road. In
line with M.124, M.125.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): . . . ] restored. (Greek): Nero Claudius, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar Augustus and of deified Augustus [ . . .
Commentary
The palm tree is certainly ancient and presumably an indication of one element in the production of the estate.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Monument
Fig. 2. Monument and background
Fig. 3. View