Description: Brown limestone stele, broken above and down the sides (w:
0.50 x h:
1.28 x d:
0.64)
Text: Inscribed on two faces, a on the front, b on the right side.
The cutter has left spaces for breaks in the stone
Letters: average 0.04; very like those of M.143 from neighbouring Taurguni.
Date: 54-55 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
found before 1939
at Gfonta.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Interpretive
a
[Ne]ro Cla[udius diui]
[Cl]audi f(ilius) G̣ẹṛṃ[anici]
[Caes(aris)] n(epos) Ti(beri) C[ae]saṛ[is]
Ạug̣(usti) pron(epos) diui Au[g](usti) [abn(epos)]
5C̣[a]esar Aug(ustus) Ger[ma-]
(sic) U nicus [pont(ifex) max(imus)]
( vac. 1) trib(unicia) po[t(estate) imp(erator) co(n)s(ul)]
[pe]ṛ L(ucium) Ac[ilium]
[Stra]bo[nem legat(um)]
10 [suu]ṃ fines occu[patos]
( vac. 1) a priuates [P(opulo) R(omano)]
( vac. 1) rest[ituit]
Νέρων Κλ[αύδι-]
[ος] θεοῦ Κ̣λ̣[αυδίου]
15 υἱὸς Γερμ̣[ανικοῦ]
[Κ]α̣ί̣σαρ̣ος υἱ[ωνὸς]
------ b
διὰ Λ(ουκίου) Ἀκιλίου
Στράβωνος το̣[ῦ]
ἰδίου πρεσβευτο[ῦ]
ὅρους διακατε-
5χομένους ὑπὸ [ἰ-]
διωτῶν Δήμῳ
[Ῥ]ωμαίων ἀπο̣-
[κ]α̣τέσ̣τησεν
Diplomatic
a
[..]ROCLA[.........]
[..]AUDIF....[.....]
[.....]NTIC[..]SA.[..]
.U.PRONDIUIAU[.....]
5.[.]ESARAUGGER[..-]
(sic)UNICUS[.........]
TRIBPO[.][........]
[..].LAC[.....]
[....]BO[.........]
10[...].FINESOCCU[.....]
APRIUATES[....]
REST[.....]
ΝΕΡΩΝΚΛ[....-]
[..]ΘΕΟΥ..[......]
15ΥΙΟΣΓΕΡ.[......]
[.]..ΣΑ.ΟΣΥΙ[....]
------ b
ΔΙΑΛΑΚΙΛΙΟΥ
ΣΤΡΑΒΩΝΟΣΤ.[.]
ΙΔΙΟΥΠΡΕΣΒΕΥΤΟ[.]
ΟΡΟΥΣΔΙΑΚΑΤΕ
5ΧΟΜΕΝΟΥΣΥΠΟ[.-]
ΔΙΩΤΩΝΔΗΜΩ
[.]ΩΜΑΙΩΝΑΠ.
[.].ΤΕ.ΤΗΣΕΝ
Apparatus
b.1: ΑΚΙΑΙΩ b.8: ΑΤΕΕΤΗΣΕΝ
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): Nero Claudius, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus [Caesar], great grandson of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, [great-great
grandson] of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, [pontifex maximus], holding tribunician power, [acclaimed imperator, consul]; by the action of Lucius Acilius Strabo, his personal envoy, he restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the
estates) which had been occupied by private persons.
(Greek): Nero Claudius, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, [great grandson of Tiberius Caesar Augustus and of
deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus), holding tribunician power, acclaimed imperator, consul]; by the action of Loukios Akilios Strabon (i.e. Lucius Acilius Strabo), his personal envoy, he restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied by private
persons.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription, supplemented from the photographs (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1939-01-17, Department of Antiquities, 3303)
Fig. 2. Face (1939-01-17, Department of Antiquities, 3303)
