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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0938. Milestone. Mile XXXVIIII. Caracalla.

Description: Broken limestone columnar milestone: h: 1.35
Text: Inscribed on the shaft, which is very weathered.
Letters: 0.04

Date: CE 216: GODOT (context)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Al Khadra (Breviglieri), 10 km East of Tarhuna and North of the Tarhuna-Cussabat road; found in 1940 with 939, and two uninscribed rectangular milestones.
Original location: Findspot: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location: In the Concessione Catarella

Interpretive

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[adn]epoti [---]
[---M(arco) A]urelio [Antonino]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---pontif]ici m[aximo]
[---trib]uniciae p[otestatis]
5[---]p(atri) p(atriae) [proco(n)s(ul)]
[--- XXX]VIIII

Diplomatic

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[...]EPOTI[---]
[---..]URELIO[........]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---......]ICIM[.....]
[---....]UNICIAEP[.........]
5[---]PP[.......]
[---...]VIIII

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] great great great grandson [of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, Marcus] Aurelius [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, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times], father of the country, [proconsul. Milestone thirty]-nine.

Bibliography: Caputo, 1942, 154; IRT, 1952, 938, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 938; Goodchild, 1948, 12, page 13, whence EDH 059774; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. View of group, with 938 and 939: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. View of 938 and 939: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR


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