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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0939b. Milestone. Mile LVII. Gordian III

Description: Columnar milestone: of grey limestone with attached base (h: 1.53 x diam.: 0.30).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.045-0.05.

Date: CE 239. (titulature)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Eastern Jabal Road: Tazzoli, 3 km. East South East of Henscir Bu Drehiba (Tazzoli Village centre, Podere 132).
Original location: Findspot: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(erator) Caes(ar) M(arcus)
Antonius Go-
rdianus Pius
Felix Aug(ustus) pon-
5tifex maximus
tribuniciae po-
testatis his p-
ater patriae
co(n)s(ul) mil(ia) p(assuum)
10 n(umero) LVII

Diplomatic

IMPCAESM
ANTONIUSGO
RDIANUSPIUS
FELIXAUGPON
5TIFEXMAXIMUS
TRIBUNICIAEPO
TESTATISHISP
ATERPATRIAE
COSMILP
10NLVII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the second time, father of the country, consul. Milestone fifty-seven.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 939b, whence IRT, 2009, 939b, whence EDH 059777; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR


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