Description: Brown limestone stele, very badly worn
(w:
0.56 x h:
0.84 x d:
0.46).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face with part of a text in Greek; as in M.229, there is vacant space below the text.
The remainder of the Greek text and probably the Latin version were presumably
on at least one of the buried faces.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 74 CE (first half)
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
lying on the East bank of a shallow Wadi, about 0.5km west of M.229 and 2 km inland from M.232 in the area of
of Ruus el Aslab; found in
1967.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . Vespasian . . . ] acclaimed imperator ten times, consul five times; through the agency of Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus [
Commentary
The first half of 74; see on M.232; cf also M.230.
Q. Paconius Agrippinus, for whom see PIR2 P 0027, was active in Cyrenaica under Vespasian, 71-74 CE: see C.147, C.428, C.429, C.430, C.438, C.747, M.68, M.165, M.229, M.230, M.232, M.238, M.239, P.397.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View
Fig. 2. View in findspot (Department of Antiquities, F 4770)