Description:
Upper part of a limestone column.
(h:
0.65 x diam.:
0.50).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft; the text has been deliberately and completely erased, except for the end of line 1.
Letters: 0.14.
Date: CE 54-55
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Balagrae, with M.199, M.200,
M.201; found in 1955.
Original location: Cyrene to Ptolemais Road: Mile 10.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[Nero Clau]dius [ . . .
Commentary
The unusual size of the letters is paralleled in M.225, suggesting an attribution to Nero, and a similar date.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).