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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0932. Milestone. Mile VII. Caracalla.

Description: Columnar milestone of limestone (h: 1.00 x diam.: 0.50).
Text: Inscribed on the face, 19 lines, of which only the final lines are recorded
Letters: 0.045

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Eastern Jabal Road: Gasr Dellasc.
Original location: Eastern Jabal Road.
Last recorded location: Known only from a plaster cast in Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

(Notes of the final lines:)

[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]Germ[anico ---]
[--- max]imo pontifici max[imo ---]
[--- tribuniciae] potestatis XVIIII [---]
proco(n)s(uli)

Diplomatic

(Notes of the final lines:)

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[---]GERM[.....---]
[---...]IMOPONTIFICIMAX[...---]
[---...........]POTESTATISXVIIII[---]
PROCOS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . greatest] victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, [acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country,] proconsul [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 932, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 932; An excerpt published Goodchild, 1948, 8, p.12, whence EDH 059768;

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