IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.199. Mile X: Milestone of Vespasian

Description: Lower part of a limestone column(w: 0.80 x h: 0.48), the surface in poor condition;
Text: Inscribed on the face, which was in poor condition; the mason had to avoid holes in lines 6 and 7.
Letters:

Date: CE 77/78

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Balagrae, with M.200, M.201, M.202; found in 1959.
Original location: Cyrene-Ptolemais road: Mile X.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

[--- ἀρχιε-]
ρε[ὺ]ς [μέγιστος δ]η-
μαρχικῆς ἐ̣ξ̣ο̣υ̣σ̣ί̣α̣ς̣
τὸ θ̣´ ὕπ[ατο]ς τὸ η´ κένσ̣ορ
5 Αὐτοκρ[άτ]ω̣ρ̣ πατὴρ
πατρ[( vac. 1)ί]δος ὁ̣δ[ο]ὺς
ἐπισκευάσαι ἐ( vac. 1)κέλευ-
σεν διὰ Λ(ουκίου) Μ[ινι]κίου
Ῥούφου [ἀ]ν[θυπάτου]
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Diplomatic

[---.....-]
ΡΕ[.]Σ[.........]Η
ΜΑΡΧΙΚΗΣ........
ΤΟ.ΥΠ[...]ΣΤΟΗΚΕΝ.ΟΡ
5ΑΥΤΟΚΡ[..]..ΠΑΤΗΡ
ΠΑΤΡ[..]ΔΟΣ.Δ[.]ΥΣ
ΕΠΙΣΚΕΥΑΣΑΙΕ  ΚΕΛΕΥ
ΣΕΝΔΙΑΛΜ[...]ΚΙΟΥ
ΡΟΥΦΟΥ[.]Ν[.......]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . Vespasianus . . ] high priest, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, consul for the eighth time, censor, father of the fatherland ordered the making of roads by the agency of L(ucius) Minicius Rufus, proconsul[ . . .

Commentary

Line 8-9: Lucius Minicius Rufus PIR2, M 626, was responsible for another milestone, M.221; For a Minicius Rufus with, apparently, the praenomen of Aulus see on C.273.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Left end of text (Department of Antiquities, F. 4371)

   Fig. 2. Left end of text (Department of Antiquities, F. 4371)

   Fig. 3. Right end of text (Department of Antiquities, F. 4370)