IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.223. Mile ?V: Milestone of Hadrian

Description: Upper part of a limestone column, broken from its base (h: 0.86 x diam.: 0.56).
Text: Inscribed (i) on the drum and (ii) on the top, around the circumference, on a rough surface
Letters: i: line 1, 0.08, line 2, 3, 0.05, line 4, 0.045, lines 5ff, 0.04; ii: 0.08-0.105, roughly cut

Date: CE 118

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Beside the Cyrene to Apollonia road, between 10 and 11 km from Apollonia, with M.225; found in 1915.
Original location: Cyrene to Apollonia road, Mile ?V.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

i
Imp(erator) Caes(ar) diui
Traiani Parthici f(ilius)
diui Nervae nepos
Traianus Hadrianus
5Aug(ustus) p(ontifex) m(aximus) t(ribunicia) p(otestate) II co(n)s(ul) III
uiam quae tumultu
Iudaico euersa et
corrupta erat res-
[tituit pe]ṛ [---]
ii
( vac. )ΚΔΙΑ[.. ? ..]Ι̣Π̣Ο̣ΙΩ[.. ? ..]Ι̣Α̣ΚΔ

Diplomatic

i
IMPCAESDIUI
TRAIANIPARTHICIF
DIUINERVAENEPOS
TRAIANUSHADRIANUS
5AUGPMTPIICOSIII
UIAMQUAETUMULTU
IUDAICOEUERSAET
CORRUPTAERATRES
[........].[---]
ii
      ΚΔΙΑ[.. ? ..]...ΙΩ[.. ? ..]..ΚΔ

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Emperor Caesar son of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul for the third time, restored the road which had been destroyed and ruined by the Jewish revolt, through [ . . .

Commentary

For a similar milestone on the same road see C.246.

ii: This line may begin and end with numbers.

Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1916, 155-6, with a photograph of the findspot, whence AE 1919.90; Oliverio, 1928, 318-20 fig.1, whence Boehringer, 1929 423, SEG 9.252, PHI 324102, AE 1928.1, Friedmann, 1930, I.2; Goodchild, 1950, 8.b, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1953.250, EDH 026841; discussed by Applebaum, 1950, B.2. From all these Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 24; Gasperini, 2007 fig. 5.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Goodchild).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.804)