Description:
Upper part of a limestone column.
(h:
0.98 x diam.:
0.44).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.07; lines3-6, 0.06; lines 7-8, 0.05.
Date: CE 100
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Beside the Cyrene to Apollonia road, on the north side of the modern road,
a short distance east of the Casa Cantoniera at Sambar,
beside two milestone stumps; found in 1955.
Original location: Cyrene to Apollonia Road, Mile 5.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): Emperor Caesar, son of deified Nerva, Nerva Trajan, Augustus, victor in Germania, Chief Priest, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, consul for the third time, father of the country, made the road using recruits raised in the province of Cyrenaica.
(Greek): Emperor Caesar, [son of ] deified Nerva,[ Nerva Trajan], Augustus, [victor in Germania], Chief [Priest . . .
Commentary
For texts recording Trajan's work on the roads see, for the Cyrene to Apollonia Road, C.609, M.222, M.224, and, a later text, M.227; for the Cyrene to Ptolemais road see M.196 and M.200.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, left side
Fig. 2. Face, right side