Imperial honours, for Diocletian
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source date: CE 284-305
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Bibliography

[...] 99f and 109 ff with illustration fig 5A (drawing), whence [...] 1954.184a, whence 018131, [...], 41 n.14, U. Gehn Last Statues of Antiquity 2832.

Domino nostro Diocletiano imperatori

Apparatus

For out Lord Diocletian, emperor

Commentary

On the site see Goodchild, op.cit., 94f.

Derived from one of four columns adapted to carry statues, apparently of the tetrarchs, and intended as frontier markers; for a parallel see D. Schlumberger, "Bornes frontières de la Palmyrène" (1939), available at Persée For other groups of four tetrarchic columns in Egypt see now Thiel, Die "Pompeius-Säule" in Alexandria (2006).

The use of Latin originally suggested that this was a monument of Tripolitania; but it is now known that Latin was common in official texts of early fourth century Ptolemais, so that there is no strong reason against associating it with the much nearer Cyrenaica.

The text was plastered over in antiquity, presumably in a post-Diocletianic reorganisation of the monument; cf on M.2.