Description: Brown limestone stele broken above and along both edges
(w:
0.67 x h:
1.27), depth not measurable.
Text: inscribed on the exposed face with part of a text in Greek; the end of the Greek text and presumably the text in Latin must
be
on buried faces.
Letters:
Date: CE 54-55
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
lying on the bed of the Wadi Hamar about 2 km south of Gasr Sciza; found in
1959
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Interpretive
[Νέρων Κλαύδι]ο[ς]
[θεοῦ Κλαυδίου]
[υἱ]ὸ[ς Γερμανικοῦ]
[Κ]αίσαρο[ς υἱωνὸς]
5[Τι(βερίου)] Καίσαρος [Σεβαστου καὶ θε-]
[οῦ Σ]εβαστο[ῦ ἔ]κγονος
Καῖσαρ [Σεβαστὸς] Γερ-
[μα]νικὸς ἀρχ[ιερεὺς]
μέγιστος δ[ημαρχ-]
10[ι]κῆς ἐξου[σίας]
[Α]ὐτοκράτωρ [ὕπατος]
[δι]ὰ Λ(ουκίου) Ἀκιλ[ίου Στράβ-]
[ων]ο[ς] το[ῦ ἰ]δίου
πρεσβευτο[ῦ]
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Diplomatic
[...........]Ο[.]
[............]
[..]Ο[...........]
[.]ΑΙΣΑΡΟ[.......]
5[...]ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ[.............-]
[...]ΕΒΑΣΤΟ[..]ΚΓΟΝΟΣ
ΚΑΙΣΑΡ[........]ΓΕΡ
[..]ΝΙΚΟΣΑΡΧ[......]
ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣΔ[.....-]
10[.]ΚΗΣΕΞΟΥ[....]
[.]ΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ[......]
[..]ΑΛΑΚΙΛ[........-]
[..]Ο[.]ΤΟ[..]ΔΙΟΥ
ΠΡΕΣΒΕΥΤΟ[.]
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[Nero Claudius, son of deified Claudius, grandson] of Germanicus Caesar, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar [Augustus] and
of deified Augustus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus), holding tribunician power, acclaimed imperator, [consul]; by the action of Loukios Akilios Strabon (i.e. Lucius Acilius Strabo), his personal envoy [he restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied by private
persons].
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Findspot (?)
