Description: Part of a limestone column: h:
0.58 x diam.:
0.45. Broken above and below.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04, with traces of red paint in the trenches
Date: CE 244-249
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
in the area of Balagrae, with C84600; found in 1964.
Original location: Cyrene to Ptolemais Road: Mile VIII.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Caesar M(arcus) Jul(ius) Philippus, Pious, Fortunate, Invincible [Aug(ustus)?], high priest [ . . .
Commentary
One of three milestones of Philip on this road: M.195, M.197, M.201, with probably M.160.
For the remainder of the text cf. the milestone of Philip I at the tenth mile, M.201.
Line 3: The addition of the title Augustus lengthens the line surprisingly, as in M.201, but seems necessary.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).