Description: Columnar milestone: h:
2.73.
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.05-0.07
Date: CE 237: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Coastal Belt:
Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna:
Wadi et-Tualeb. 2 km. east-north-east of Ras el-Mergheb; found in 1911.
Original location: Findspot: Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna.
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
Imp(erator) Caes(ar) C(aius) Iulius Uerus
Maximinus Aug(ustus) Ger-
manicus maximus
Sarmaticus maximus
5Dacicus maximus tri-
buniciae potestatis
ter(tium) imp(erator) V pontifex
maximus et C(aius) Iulius
Uerus Maximus nobi-
10lissimus Caes(ar) princeps
iuuentutis Germa-
nicus maximus Sarmati-
cus maximus Dacicus maxi-
mus pontis uitustate dilapsos
15 et iter longa iniuria corruptum
restituerun<t> sua infaticabili
pṛouide[ntia] peruium com-
[m]e[a]nt[ibus r]eddid[er]unt
Diplomatic
IMPCAESCIULIUSUERUS
MAXIMINUSAUGGER
MANICUSMAXIMUS
SARMATICUSMAXIMUS
5DACICUSMAXIMUSTRI
BUNICIAEPOTESTATIS
TERIMPVPONTIFEX
MAXIMUSETCIULIUS
UERUSMAXIMUSNOBI
10LISSIMUSCAESPRINCEPS
IUUENTUTISGERMA
NICUSMAXIMUSSARMATI
CUSMAXIMUSDACICUSMAXI
MUSPONTISUITUSTATEDILAPSOS
15ETITERLONGAINIURIACORRUPTUM
RESTITUERUNSUAINFATICABILI
P.OUIDE[....]PERUIUMCOM
[.]E[.]NT[.....]EDDID[..]UNT
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.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1925a, 3, pp.10-15, whence AE, 1926.138; listed, Goodchild, 1948, 3, p.10; IRT, 1952, 925, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 925, whence EDH 059764; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
