Description:
Stele (w:
0.89 x h:
1.22 x d:
0.21) of hard brown sand-stone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century capitals ranging from lapidary to irregular: line 1, 0.09; line 2-9, 0.07-0.075; line 10-13, 0.06; line 14,
0.045.
Date: CE 87: GODOT, GODOT (internal, date)
Findspot:
Syrtica: Found 3 km. east of Sirte (map ref. approx. Y 6873)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
Interpretive
[Ex a]uctorit(ate)
[I]ṃp(eratoris) diui Uespasi-
ani f(ili) ⟦Domitiani⟧
Aug(usti) Germ(anici) pont(ificis)
5 max(imi) trib(unicia) pot(estate) VI
imp(eratoris) XIIII co(n)s(ulis) XIII
cens(oris) perpet(ui) p(atris) p(atriae)
iussu Suelli Flac-
ci leg(ati) Aug(usti) pro pr(aetore)
10 terminus positi inter na-
tionem Muduciuuiorum
e[t] Ẓamuciorum ex conuen-
tione utrarumque
nationum
Diplomatic
[...]UCTORIT
[.].PDIUIUESPASI
ANIF⟦DOMITIANI⟧
AUGGERMPONT
5MAXTRIBPOTVI
IMPXIIIICOSXIII
CENSPERPETPP
IUSSUSUELLIFLAC
CILEGAUGPROPR
10TERMINUSPOSITIINTERNA
TIONEMMUDUCIUUIORUM
E[.].AMUCIORUMEXCONUEN
TIONEUTRARUMQUE
NATIONUM
3: Erased very half-heartedly after Domitian's damnatio in 96.
10: positi sic
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[On] the authority of the son of deified Vespasian, emperor Domitian (name erased) Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, holding tribinician power for the sixth time, acclaimed victor fourteen times, consul
for the thirteenth time, perpetual censor, father of the country, by the command of Suellius Flaccus, legate of Augustus with
praetorian powers, the boundary stone(scil. s) were set up between the tribe of the Muduciuui and that of the Zamucii, in
accordance with the agreement of both tribes.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1939, 111ff., fig. 11, whence AE, 1940.70; IRT, 1952, 854, whence IRT, 2009, 854, whence EDH 020847; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 32 Lastre)
