Description:
Lower part of a limestone column with cubical base
(h:
0.35, + base 0.52 x diam.:
0.59).
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: No description
Date: 77/78 CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Bir Sebil, where the old road from Cyrene to Beida joins the modern highway; photographed in 1928.
Original location: Cyrene-Ptolemais road, Mile IV.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
1: or ἐπισκ]ευ[άσαι ἐκέλευσεν
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Vespasian . . . ]ordered [the making of roads by the agency of] L(ucius) Minicius Rufus, proconsul. Mile 4.
Commentary
For the date and the formulae see M.199, under the same proconsul, Lucius Minicius Rufus PIR2, M 626; for a Minicius Rufus with, apparently, the praenomen of Aulus see on C.273.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1950, 18, pp. 83-91 5, whence AE 1951.209, SEG 13.619, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1953.250
Text constituted from:
Images
Fig. 1. Face