Description: A limestone column drum, with a stuccoed surface.
Text: Inscribed on the stuccoed surface, now damaged above and at the left side.
The inscription is in a different hand from M.1 and was never plastered over; it was presumably cut in a later reorganisation
of the monument.
Letters: 0.06; Y for V in line 3; freehand capitals, closely set and irregular.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
Arae Philaenorum; reused to
form part of the north side of enclosure D; found in 1951.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] governor of the same province, being devoted] always to his [divinity and majesty
Commentary
Line 1: Presumably from the name of a governor, probably of Cyrenaica rather than Tripolitania (see on M.1).
Line 3: A previous reference to the province is implied.
Line 3-4: On the formula, by this time well-established in abbreviated form, see H. Gundel, Epigraphica XV (1953) 128f.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1952 99f and 109 ff with illustration fig 5B (drawing); whence AE 1954.184b, whence EDH 018134, whence Salama, 1965, 41 n.14, U. Gehn Last Statues of Antiquity 2832
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).