Description: Upper part of a limestone column, broken above, below and at the back
(w:
0.49 x h:
1.01).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.065: lines 2f., ave. 0.05.
Date: 100 CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
in the area of Balagrae, with M.197;
found in 1964.
Original location: Cyrene-Ptolemais road: Mile VIII.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Caesar, son of deified Nerva, Nerva Trajan Augustus, victor in Germania, high priest, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, consul for the third time, father of the fatherland, made the road, by means of recruits raised in the Cyrenaean province. (scil. Mile) 8.
Commentary
For texts recording Trajan's work on the roads see, for the Cyrene to Ptolemais road see M.196 and M.200; for the Cyrene to Apollonia Road, see C.609, M.222, M.224, and, a later text, M.227.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1971 170.whence AE 1973.560, EDH HD011630.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Front from left (Department of Antiquities, F.4430)
Fig. 2. Front from right (Department of Antiquities, F.4431)
Fig. 3. Upper part (André Laronde: MFA)
Fig. 4. 6 milestones: from left M.160, M.201, Unidentified, M.195, M.196, Unidentified (1966, September)
Fig. 5. 4 milestones: from left, M.201, Unidentified, M.195, M.196 (1966, September)