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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0939. Milestone. Mile XXXVIIII.

Description: Limestone columnar milestone in two pieces: h: 1.25
Text: Inscribed on a flattened area on the shaft.
Letters: 0.05-0.06.

Date: No date surviving. Third century CE (lettering, context)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Al Khadra, Breviglieri, in the Lepcis Magna-Tarhuna area; found in 1940 with 938, and two uninscribed rectangular milestones.
Original location: Findspot: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location: In the Concessione Catarella

Interpretive

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pontifex
maximus
[tri]buni-
ciae potes-
5tatis [---]
co(n)s(ul) p(ater) p(atriae)
( vac. 1 line)
( vac. 1 line)
( vac. ) m(iliarius) ( vac. )
( vac. ) XXXVIIII ( vac. )

Diplomatic

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PONTIFEX
MAXIMUS
[...]BUNI
CIAEPOTES
5TATIS[---]
COSPP
     vacat
     vacat
      M      
      XXXVIIII      

Bibliography: Caputo, 1942, 154; IRT, 1952, 939, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 939; Goodchild, 1948, 13, p. 13, whence EDH 059775; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.;

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 361 Leica)

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

   Fig. 3. View of 938 and 939: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR