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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0928. Milestone. Caracalla.

Description: Columnar milestone.
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: No description.

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Coastal Belt: Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna: Gasr Garabulli: in the Concessione Gherardi, 1 km. West of the village.
Original location: Findspot: Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) diui Septimi Se-
ueri Pii Arabici Adiabe-
nici Parthici maximi Bri-
tanici maximi filio diui
M(arci) Antonini Pii Germanici
Sarmatici nepo]ti [diui Anto-
nini Pii pro]nepoti [diui Ha-
driani a]bnepoti [diui Tra-
iani P]arthici et d[iui Ner-]
5uae a[dn]epoti
M(arco) Aure[l]lio Antoni[no] Pio [Fe-]
lici Aug(usto) Parthico maxim[o]
Britanico maximo G[e]r-
manico maximo p[o]n[ti-]
10[fici] maximo tribuni[ciae]
[po]testatis XVIIII [c. 6]
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Diplomatic

[....................................................................................................................]TI[..................]NEPOTI[.............]BNEPOTI[............]ARTHICIETD[......-]
5UAEA[..]EPOTI
MAURE[.]LIOANTONI[..]PIO[..-]
LICIAUGPARTHICOMAXIM[.]
BRITANICOMAXIMOG[.]R
MANICOMAXIMOP[.]N[..-]
10[....]MAXIMOTRIBUNI[....]
[..]TESTATISXVIIII[······]
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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, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 928, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 928; Bartoccini, 1948, 155-6; Guey, 1950a 67 ff, whence AE 1951.229, EDH 022168

Images

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