WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0939a. Milestone. Mile LIII. Gallienus.

Description: Columnar milestone of grey limestone (h: 1.12 x diam.: 0.37) probably a re-used architectural fragment; broken in two pieces and damaged by use as a roller.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.035-0.04.

Date: No date surviving. 262-268 CE (titulature)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Eastern Jabal Road: Tazzoli, 3 km. South of Abiar Miggi (Tazzoli Village, Podere 90).
Original location: Findspot: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari)
P(ublio) Licinio GENA
Galenio
Pio inuict[o]
5 PIP Aug(usto) Pio
ANMOX Par(thico)
[maximo ---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[c. 2 - 3] IUGRIE (sic)
10 [c. 2 - 3] ONSAI
m(ilia) p(assuum) LIII

Diplomatic

IMPCAES
PLICINIOGENA
GALENIO
PIOINUICT[.]
5PIPAUGPIO
ANMOXPAR
[......---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[c. 2 - 3]IUGRIE(sic)
10[c. 2 - 3]ONSAI
MPLIII

2: : sic: for Egnatio.
3: : sic.
5: : sic: or Fel(ici).
6: : sic: for pontifici) max(imo).
10: Perhaps for proconsuli.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To emperor Caesar Publius Licinius [Egnatius] Gallienus, Pius, Unconquered, [Felix], Augustus, Pius, [chief preist, greatest] victor in Parthia [---]. Milestone fifty-three.

Commentary

line6, Particus maximus: From c. 262-3, see Wickert, PW XIII, 359.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 939a, whence IRT, 2009, 939a, whence EDH 059776; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2020 Leica)


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