Description: Brown limestone stele
(w:
0.63 x h:
1.68 x d:
0.42).
Text: Inscribed on two faces: a on the front face, b on the right side, which is damaged above.
Letters: Latin: lines 1, 2, 0.06; remainder 0.04-0.05; Greek: 0.04.
Date: 74 CE, first half
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
on the West side of the Wadi Sahela, c. 1 km from Apollonia / Derna road, close to hillock
of Ruus el Aslab,
and near the ruins of an apparently prosperous village; found in
1959
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Interpretive
a
Imp(erator) Caesar {VES}
Vespasianus Aug(ustus)
pont(ifex) max(imus) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
V imp(erator) X [p(ater) p(atriae) ] c[o(n)]s(ul) V p[e]r
5Q(uintum) Paconium Agrip[pi-]
num leg(atum) ṣụ[um] agrum
regium [P(opulo) R(omano) resti]tuit
Α̣[ὐτοκρ]άτωρ
Καῖσαρ Οὐεσπασια-
10νὸς ἀρχιερεὺς μέγισ-
τος δημαρχικῆς
ἐξουσίας ε´ Αὐτοκράτωρ ι´ πατὴρ ( vac. 1)
b
[πατρίδος]
[ὕπατος ε διὰ]
[Κ(οΐντου) Πακωνίου]
Ἀγριππί̣[νου]
5 [ἰ]δί[ου πρεσ-]
βευτοῦ ἀγ[ρὸν]
βασ̣ι̣λ̣ικὸ̣ν
Δ(ήμῳ) Ῥ(ωμαίων) ἀποκα-
τέστησεν ( vac. 10 lines)
Diplomatic
a
IMPCAESARVES
VESPASIANUSAUG
PONTMAXTRIBPOT
VIMPX[...]C[.]SVP[.]R
5QPACONIUMAGRIP[..-]
NUMLEG..[..]AGRUM
REGIUM[........]TUIT
.[.....]ΑΤΩΡ
ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑ
10ΝΟΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΜΕΓΙΣ
ΤΟΣΔΗΜΑΡΧΙΚΗΣ
ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣΕΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡΙΠΑΤΗΡ
b
[........]
[.......][...]
[..........]
ΑΓΡΙΠΠ.[...]
5[.]ΔΙ[......-]
ΒΕΥΤΟΥΑΓ[...]
ΒΑ...ΙΚ.Ν
ΔΡΑΠΟΚΑ
ΤΕΣΤΗΣΕΝ vacat
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): Emperor Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed imperator ten times, [father of the fatherland] consul five times; through the agency of Q(uintus) Paconius Agrippinus, his envoy, restored the royal estate to the Roman People.
(Greek): Emperor Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, high priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed imperator ten times, father [of the fatherland, consul five times, through the agency of Q(uintus) Paconius] Agrippinus, his envoy, restored the royal estate to the Roman People.
Bibliography: Frigerio, 1976, 428-9 and figs. 15, 16, whence SEG 26.1841, PHI 324732; observations, Reynolds, 2000a, 837, note 8, whence SEG 50.1645; discussed Struffolino, 2014, 363.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View of a
Fig. 2. Face b
