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.
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).