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M.239. Boundary marker

Description: Brown limestone stele (w: 0.66 x h: 1.04 x d: 0.51).
Text: Inscribed on three faces: a on the front, b to the left of a, c to the right of a. The vacant spaces shown in b, lines 1, 2 and c, line 5 mark holes in the stone avoided by the mason.
Letters: Average 0.04.

Date: 74 CE, first half

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Ras al-Hilal; found in 1961.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum, 2008.

Interpretive

a
Imp(erator) Caisar Vesp[a-]
sianus Aug(ustus) pont(ifex) max(imus)
ṭrib(unicia) pot(estate) V imp(erator) X p(ater) p(atriae) co(n)s(ul) V
per Q(uintum) Paconium Agrippi-
5nuṃ leg(atum) suum agrum
regium P(opulo) R(omano) restituit

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ
Οὐεσπασιανὸς ἀρχιε-
ρεὺς μέγιστος δημαρ-
10χικῆς ἐξουσίας ε´ ( vac. 1)
( vac. )
b
( vac. 3) Αὐτ̣[οκράτω-]
ρ̣ ι̣´ πατὴ̣[ρ πα-]
( vac. 1)τρίδος [ὕπα-]
τος [ε´ ( vac. 1)].
( vac. )
c
[διὰ Κ(ουΐντου) Πα]κ̣ω̣νίου [Ἀγρ-]
[ι]ππίνου
ἰδίου πρ̣[ε]σ-
βε̣υτοῦ ἀ̣γ̣ρ̣ὸν [β-]
5ασιλικ( vac. 1)ὸν Δ(ήμῳ) Ῥ(ωμαίων)
[ἀπ]οκατέσ[τη-]
σεν ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

a
IMPCAISARVESP[.-]
SIANUSAUGPONTMAX
.RIBPOTVIMPXPPCOSV
PERQPACONIUMAGRIPPI
5NU.LEGSUUMAGRUM
REGIUMPRRESTITUIT

ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡΚΑΙΣΑΡ
ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣΑΡΧΙΕ
ΡΕΥΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣΔΗΜΑΡ
10ΧΙΚΗΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣΕ  
     vacat
b
      ΑΥ.[......-]
..ΠΑΤ.[...-]
  ΤΡΙΔΟΣ[...-]
ΤΟΣ[..]
     vacat
c
[.......]..ΝΙΟΥ[...-]
[.]ΠΠΙΝΟΥ
ΙΔΙΟΥΠ.[.]Σ
Β.ΥΤΟΥ...ΟΝ[.-]
5ΑΣΙΛΙΚ  ΟΝΔΡ
[..]ΟΚΑΤΕΣ[..-]
ΣΕΝ      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Latin): Emperor Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed imperator ten times, fatehr of the fatherland, consul five times; through the agency of Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus, his envoy, restored the royal estate to the Roman People.

(Greek): Emperor Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, high priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed imperator ten times, father of the fatherland, consul five times, through the agency of [Q(uintus) Pa]conius Agrippinus, his envoy, restored the royal estate to the Roman People.

Commentary

The first half of 74. See on M.232

a, line 1: for the spelling Caisar see also M.229.

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: Mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 285.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face a (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. Face a (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 3. Face b (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 4. Face c (2008, H.Walda)