?Mile XIV: Milestone of Trajan
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 10 December 104 - 9 December 105 CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Imperator Caesar diui Nervae filius Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate VIIII consul V per milites dimissos ex legionibus [...] [...]

[Emperor Caesar son] of deified Nerva, Nerva Trajan Augustus, [victor in Germania], victor in Dacia, pontifiex maximus, [holding tribunician power] for the eighth time, consul for the fifth time, [by means of soldiers] retired from [the legions . . .

Commentary

The date is between 10 December 104 and 9 December 105.

For the use of veterans in building works cf. C.117.

For texts recording Trajan's work on the roads see, for the Cyrene to Apollonia Road, C.609, M.222, M.224, all using conscripts; this text is later than those. For the Cyrene to Ptolemais road see M.196 and M.200.