Boundary marker
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 71
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[...], 1, whence [...], 2001.565, [...] 2000.1590, [...] 50.1630; discussed [...], 363.

[...] [...] δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ γ Αὐτοκράτωρ τὸ η πατὴρ πατρίδος ὕπατος τὸ γ ἀποδεδειγμένος τὸ δ διὰ Κοΐντου Πακωνίου Ἀγριππίνου ἰδίου πρεσβευτοῦ Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων ἀγρὸν δημόσιον ἀποκατέστησεν

Translation

[Vespasian . . . ] holding tribunician power for the third time, imperator for the eighth time, father of the country, consul[for the third time], designated for the fourth time, by the action of Quintus Paconius Agrippinus, his personal envoy restored public land to the Roman [People].

Commentary

Erected in the reign of Vespasian as part of a programme to reclaim land belonging to the Roman People which had been illegally occupied. The text is the translation of a Latin original, which probably occupied the front; if a third face was inscribed, it may have contained the text of L. Acilius Strabo (as on the boundary stone M.238) or a lease of the land to a private person (as in A.51). For fuller discussion see Reynolds art cit.

Line 5: Q. Paconius Agrippinus, for whom see PIR2 P 0027, was active in Cyrenaica under Vespasian, 71-74 CE: see C.147, C.428, C.429, C.430, C.438, C.747, M.68, M.165, M.229, M.230, M.232, M.238, M.239, P.397.

Line 7: Probably δη[μόσ]ιον], a translation of agrum publicum in the lost Latin version; this is the first evidence for ager publicus extending as far to the west as Berenike.