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created: Transcription; the reading has been supplemented from the photographs (Reynolds)
source date: 71 CE, second half
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Bibliography

[...], 165, with illustration, figs. 1, 2, pp. 166, 167, whence [...] 9.165, [...] 324016, [...] 1919.91-92, whence [...] HD026844; see also [...], 12, n. 11.

Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate III Imperator VIII pater patriae consul III designatus IIII per Quintum Paconium Agrippinum legatum suum Populo Romano Ptolomaeum restituit

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Οὐεσπασιανός ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ γ Αὐτοκράτωρ [sic] τὸ η πατὴρ πατρίδος ὕπατος τὸ γ δεδειγμένος τὸ δ διὰ Κοΐντου Πακονίου Ἀγριππείνου ἰδίου πρεσβευτοῦ Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων τὸ Πτυλυμαῖον ἀπεκατέστησεν

a: [Latin] Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul three times, designated for a fourth time, through his personal envoy Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus restored the [Ptolem]aion to the Roman People.

b: [Greek] Emperor Caesar Vespasian, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed imperator for the eighth time, father of the fatherland, consul three times, designated for a fourth time, through his personal envoy Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus restored the Ptolemaion to the Roman People.

Commentary

Face chipped along the edges and broken below

Presumably re-used but indicating an estate near the walls in the area, cf. C.428.

Vespasian was trib. Pot. III from 1st Jan 71 - 31st Dec 71 and cos IIII from 1st Jan 72; the stele therefore was erected in the second half of 71.

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.

a, line 10, b, line 15: On Ptolomaeum/Πτυλυμαῖον, also in C.428, see C. Dobias-Lalou, art.cit.: the name must describe one of the royal estates claimed for the Populus Romanus.