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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0923. Fragmentary Milestone. Caracalla.

Description: Fragment from a columnar milestone: w: 0.43 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.35.
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Deeply cut, lines 1-2 0.053-0.06, lines 3 following 0.05-0.055

Date: CE 216: GODOT (context)

Findspot: Coastal Belt: Coast Road: Gigthis-Sabratha: Abu Kammash
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) diui Septi-]
mi Seueri Pii Ara[bici Adiabenici Pa-]
rthici maximi [Britanici maximi]
filio diui Ạ[ntonini Pii Germanici]
[Sarm]atici nep[oti diui]
5[Antoni]ṇị P̣[ii pronepoti]
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Diplomatic

[................-]
MISEUERIPIIARA[................-]
RTHICIMAXIMI[...............]
FILIODIUI.[...................]
[....]ATICINEP[.......]
5[......]...[...........]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1925a, 1 pp.3 ff., fig. 1; listed Goodchild, 1948, 1, p.10; IRT, 1952, 923, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 923, whence EDH 059763; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 148)