Description: Columnnar milestone of limestone, in two pieces (h:
2.14 x diam.:
0.46).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Not recorded.
Date: CE 237: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Al Khums:
Villa, close to the west bank of Wadi Zennad and near the sea; found during
excavations near the central meat-market in 1909.
Original location: Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna
Last recorded location:
Correr Museum, Venice.
Interpretive
Imp(erator) Caes(ar) C(aius) Iulius Uerus
Maximinus Piu(s) Felix
Aug(ustus) Germanicus ma-
ximus Sarmaticus ma-
5ximus Dacicus maximus
tribuniciae potestatis ter(tium)
imp(erator) V ponti(fex) maximus
et C(aius) Iulius Uerus Maximus
nobilissimus Caes(ar) prin-
10ceps iuuentutis Germani-
cus maximus Sarmaticus
maximus Dacicus maxi-
mus pontes uetu<s>tate
delapsos et iter longa in-
15iuria corruptum restitu-
erun<t> sua infaticabili
prouidentia peruium
commeantibus
reddiderunt
20(milia passuum) I
Diplomatic
IMPCAESCIULIUSUERUS
MAXIMINUSPIUFELIX
AUGGERMANICUSMA
XIMUSSARMATICUSMA
5XIMUSDACICUSMAXIMUS
TRIBUNICIAEPOTESTATISTER
IMPVPONTIMAXIMUS
ETCIULIUSUERUSMAXIMUS
NOBILISSIMUSCAESPRIN
10CEPSIUUENTUTISGERMANI
CUSMAXIMUSSARMATICUS
MAXIMUSDACICUSMAXI
MUSPONTESUETUTATE
DELAPSOSETITERLONGAIN
15IURIACORRUPTUMRESTITU
ERUNSUAINFATICABILI
PROUIDENTIAPERUIUM
COMMEANTIBUS
REDDIDERUNT
20I
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, greatest victor in Germany, greatest victor in Sarmatia,
greatest victor in Dacia, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed victor five times, chief priest, and Caius
Julius Verus Maximus, most noble Caesar, chief of the Youth, greatest victor in Germany, greatest victor in Sarmatia, greatest
victor in Dacia, restored the bridges, which had collapsed because of their age, and the road which was disrupted by long-standing
damage, and rebuilt a way along it for travellers, by their untiring providence. Milestone I.
Bibliography: Merlin, 1912 CLXXXIII-IV, from a report by M. Hégly, whence AE 1912.23; Aurigemma, 1925a, 15 i f; Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, 650; listed Goodchild, 1948, 4, p.10; from these IRT, 1952, 924, whence IRT, 2009, 924, whence EDH 027888. Image at Ubi Erat Lupa, 19695
Images
None available (2021).
