Description: A lower part of a brown limestone stele damaged above and along the sides
(w:
0.62 x h:
1.10 x d:
0.42).
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.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma three times for Σ, at the ends of lines 7, 8 and in the middle of μέγιστος; the last two letters of line 7 and the last letter of line 8 written small.
Date: 54-68 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Bu Traba; found in 1970
in situ in a line with
M.125, south of M.123
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[Nero Claudius, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Ge]rmanicus Caesar, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar Augustus and of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus) holding tribunician [power . . .
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mentioned Reynolds, 1990, 70, whence mentioned Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1991.678.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IX.97)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds IX.98)