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M.251. Boundary marker

Description: Part of a brown limestone stele broken in six pieces (together, w: 0.65 x h: 0.81 x d: 0.19).
Text: Inscribed on two faces, b to the right of a.
Letters: First century CE; 0.04-0.05.

Date: 54-55 CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Gabu Iunes near Labraq; found probably in 1949
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum

Interpretive

a
[Nero Claudi]us diui [Cla-]
[udi f(ilius)] Germanici Caes[aris] Aug(usti) pro-
n(epos) diui Aug(usti) abn(epos) Caesar
[A]ug(ustus) Germanicus pontif(ex)
5 [m]ax(imus) trib(unicia) potest(ate) Imp(erator) co(n)s(ul)
[pe]r L(ucium) Acilium Strabonem
[l]egat(um) suum fineṣ occupaṭ(os)
a priuatis P(opulo) R(omano) r[e]stituit

Νέρων Κλαύδιος θεοῦ
10Κλαυδίου υἱὸς Γερ[μ]α[νι-]
κοῦ Καίσαρος υἱωνὸς Τ̣ι̣(βερίου)
Καίσαρος καὶ θεοῦ Σεβασ-
[τοῦ ἔκγ]ονος Καῖσαρ Σε-
βαστὸς Γερμανικὸς ἀρ-
15χιερεὺς μέγι̣στος δη[μαρ-]
χικῆς ἐξουσίας Α[ὐτοκρά]τ̣ω̣ρ [ὕπα]τος
b
[διὰ Λ(ουκίου) Ἀκιλίου] Στρ-
[άβωνος τοῦ ἰδίου] πρεσ-
[βευτοῦ ὅρο]υς
[κατεχ]ομ-
5[ένους ὑπὸ ἰ]δι-
[ωτῶν Δή]μωι
[Ῥωμα]ίω[ν]
[ἀποκα]τέσ̣-
[τησεν]

Diplomatic

a
[..........]USDIUI[...-]
[.....]GERMANICICAES[....]AUGPRO
NDIUIAUGABNCAESAR
[.]UGGERMANICUSPONTIF
5[.]AXTRIBPOTESTIMPCOS
[..]RLACILIUMSTRABONEM
[.]EGATSUUMFINE.OCCUPA.
APRIUATISPRR[.]STITUIT

ΝΕΡΩΝΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣΘΕΟΥ
10ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΥΙΟΣΓΕΡ[.]Α[..-]
ΚΟΥΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΥΙΩΝΟΣ..
ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΚΑΙΘΕΟΥΣΕΒΑΣ
[......]ΟΝΟΣΚΑΙΣΑΡΣΕ
ΒΑΣΤΟΣΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣΑΡ
15ΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΜΕΓ.ΣΤΟΣΔΗ[...-]
ΧΙΚΗΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣΑ[......]..Ρ[...]ΤΟΣ
b
[............]ΣΤΡ
[..............]ΠΡΕΣ
[.........]ΥΣ
[.....]ΟΜ
5[.........]ΔΙ
[......]ΜΩΙ
[....]ΙΩ[.]
[.....]ΤΕ.
[.....]

1: diui omitted Patriarcha, 1953
2: Caesars Patriarcha, 1953
4: ab () T[i] Patriarcha, 1953
6: Omits initial A Patriarcha, 1953
7: fine[s] Patriarcha, 1953
8: r[esti]tuit Patriarcha, 1953
11: Γερ Patriarcha, 1953
12: [K]αίσαρος Patriarcha, 1953
13: [Κ]αίσαρος Patriarcha, 1953
14: [ἔγγο]νος; Σε Patriarcha, 1953

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

(Latin): Nero Claudius son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great-great grandson of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power, acclaimed imperator, consul, , by (scil. the action of) Lucius Acilius Strabo his personal envoy, restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied by private persons.

(Greek): Nero Claudius son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar and deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest, holding tribunician power, acclaimed imperator, consul, by (scil. the action of) [Lucius Acilius] Strabo [his personal] envoy, [restored to the] Roman People [the boundaries] (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied [by private persons].

Commentary

a: Lines 6, 16: Nero in his first year

For Acilius Strabo see PIR2 A 0082, and addenda; he was active in Cyrenaica under Claudius and Nero: A.25, A.50, A.68, C.434, C.748, M.125, M.141, M.143, M.153, M.172, M.238, M.251, M.275, and perhaps M.68; for his appointment see on M.141.

Bibliography: Patriarcha, 1953103-105
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2004: MFA 04/III/12)


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