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M.172. Boundary marker

Description: Brown limestone stele (w: 0.55 x h: 1.72 x d: 0.33)
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped in a number of places; all the faces were examined.
Letters: 0.035 - 0.045; rather elaborate stops.

Date: 54-55 CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Got Gilmina, in the area of ‘Umar al Mukhtār; found in 1956.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum (Inv. no. 76-215)

Interpretive

[Νέρων Κλ]αύδι̣ο̣ς [θεοῦ]
[Κ]λαυδ̣ί̣ου Καί̣[σα]ρος
Σεβαστ̣οῦ Γερ̣μανι-
(sic) [κο]ῦ ὑὸς [Γερ]μανικοῦ
5(sic) [Κ]αίσ[α]ρος ὑω[ν]ὸς Τι(βερίου)
[Καί]σαρος Σεβαστοῦ
[κ]αὶ θ̣ε̣οῦ Σεβαστοῦ
ἔκγονος Καῖσαρ Σεβασ-
τος Γερμανικὸς
10 Αὐτοκράτωρ
διὰ Λ(ουκίου) Ἀκιλ[ίο]υ Στράβω-
νος τοῦ [ἰδί]ου πρεσ-
βευτοῦ [ὅρου]ς ὑπὸ
ἰδιωτῶν κατεχομένους
15 [Δήμῳ] Ῥ̣ω̣μαίων ἀπο-
( vac. 1)κ̣α̣τ̣έ̣σ̣τ̣[η]σ̣ε̣ ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

[.......]ΑΥΔ..Σ[....]
[.]ΛΑΥ..ΟΥΚΑ.[..]ΡΟΣ
ΣΕΒΑΣ.ΟΥΓΕ.ΜΑΝΙ
(sic)[..]ΥΥΟΣ[...]ΜΑΝΙΚΟΥ
5(sic)[.]ΑΙΣ[.]ΡΟΣΥΩ[.]ΟΣΤΙ
[...]ΣΑΡΟΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
[.]ΑΙ..ΟΥΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
ΕΚΓΟΝΟΣΚΑΙΣΑΡΣΕΒΑΣ
ΤΟΣΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣ
10ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ
ΔΙΑΛΑΚΙΛ[..]ΥΣΤΡΑΒΩ
ΝΟΣΤΟΥ[...]ΟΥΠΡΕΣ
ΒΕΥΤΟΥ[....]ΣΥΠΟ
ΙΔΙΩΤΩΝΚΑΤΕΧΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ
15[....]..ΜΑΙΩΝΑΠΟ
  ......[.]..  

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[Nero Cl]audius son of deified Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, and of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Imperator, by (scil. the action of) Lucius Acilius Strabo his personal envoy, restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied by private persons.

Commentary

Clearly in this comparatively remote spot a Latin version was not thought worth cutting, at any rate not on all stelae.

For Acilius Strabo see PIR2 A 0082, and addenda; he was active in Cyrenaica under Claudius and Nero: A.25, A.50, A.68, C.434, C.748, M.125, M.141, M.143, M.153, M.172, M.238, M.251, M.275, and perhaps M.68; for his appointment see on M.141.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face

   Fig. 2. Face, lines 1-7

   Fig. 3. Face, lines 6-15

   Fig. 4. View


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