Mile I: Milestone of Trajan
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source date: CE 100
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imperator Caesar, diui Nervae filius, Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, pontifex maximus, tribunicia potestate IIII, imperator XI consul III, pater patriae, uiam fecit per tirones lectos ex prouincia Cyrenaica A

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ, θεοῦ Νέρβα υἱός, Νέρβα Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικός, ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ δ, ὕπατος γ, πατὴρ πατρίδος, τὴν ὁδὸν ἐποίησεν διὰ τῶν καταλεχθέντων ἐκ τῆς Κυρηναϊκῆς ἐπαρχίας τιρώνων

[Latin]: Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Nerva, Nerva Trajan, Augustus, victor in Germania, Chief Priest, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, 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 the deified Nerva, Nerva Trajan, Augustus, victor in Germania, [Chief Priest], holding tribunician [power] for the fourth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul for the third time, [father of the country], made the road using [recruits] raised in the [province] of Cyrenaica

Commentary

This is the first mile on the road from Cyrene to Apollonia.

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.