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.
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)