Description: Columnar
milestone of brown limestone (h:
1.54 x diam.:
0.45).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.06.
Date: CE 237 (titulature)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Wadi Dauun,
below the modern Marconi-Tarhuna road, 2 km. West of Gasr Dauun;
found by Oates in 1949
Original location: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
Interpretive
Imp(erator) C(aius) Iulius
Berus Maximinus
Pius Felix [Aug(ustus)] Germ[ani-]
cus maximus Sarmati-
5cus maxim[u]s Dacicus
maximus tribuniciae potestatis [ter(tium)]
imp(erator) et C(aius) Iul[iu]s Uerus Maxi-
mus n[o]bil[is]s[imus] Caes(ar) prince[ps]
iuuen[t]uti[s] Germanicus max[i-]
10ṃus [Sarmaticus] ṃax[imus]
Dacịcuṣ max[imus] pontes uetu<s>ta-
te dilạp̣ṣọṣ ịṭẹṛ ḷọ<n>ga iniuria-
corrụp̣ṭụṃ ṛẹṣṭịṭuerunt ẹṭ P̣ṚỌ
sua [infaticabili] prouidentia
15DU [c. 6] p̣ẹṛuium
commeantibus rediderunt
(milia passuum) XXX
Diplomatic
IMPCIULIUS
BERUSMAXIMINUS
PIUSFELIX[...]GERM[...-]
CUSMAXIMUSSARMATI
5CUSMAXIM[.]SDACICUS
MAXIMUSTRIBUNICIAEPOTESTATIS[...]
IMPETCIUL[..]SUERUSMAXI
MUSN[.]BIL[..]S[....]CAESPRINCE[..]
IUUEN[.]UTI[.]GERMANICUSMAX[.-]
10.US[..........].AX[....]
DAC.CU.MAX[....]PONTESUETUTA
TEDIL...........GAINIURIA
CORR...........UERUNT.....
SUA[............]PROUIDENTIA
15DU[······]...UIUM
COMMEANTIBUSREDIDERUNT
XXX
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
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 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 30.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 936, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 936, whence EDH 059772; Oates, 1953 114; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2016 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2018 Leica)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2019 Leica)
