Description: Rectangular stele, w:
0.48 x h:
3 x d:
0.48; the square base in which it stood also survives.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Irregular and rough
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan:
Oea-Mizda area, 85.5km from Tripoli. Found at Caf Tobbi, 2.5 km. North of Garian.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Built into the road revetment approximately in its original position.
Interpretive
( vac. 3) Imp(eratori) ( vac. 3)
Caes(ari) diui
Septimi Seueri Pii
Arabici Adiabenici
5 Parthici maximi Bryt(anici) max(imi)
fil(io) diui M(arci) Antonini
Pii German(ici) max(imi)
Sarm(atici) nepoti
diui Antonini Pii
10pronepoti diui
Hadriani abnepoti
diui Traiani [Pa]rt[h](ici)
et diui Nerue
adnepoti
15 M(arco) Aurellio Antonino
Pio Felici Aug(usto) Parth(ico)
max(imo) Bryt(anico) max(imo) G[e]rm(anico)
max(imo) pontific(i) max(imo)
trib(unicia) pot(estate) XVIIII
20 imp(eratori) IIII co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae)
proco(n)s(uli)
( vac. 1 line)
( vac. 2) mil(iarium) n(umero) LVII
Diplomatic
IMP
CAESDIUI
SEPTIMISEUERIPII
ARABICIADIABENICI
5PARTHICIMAXIMIBRYTMAX
FILDIUIMANTONINI
PIIGERMANMAX
SARMNEPOTI
DIUIANTONINIPII
10PRONEPOTIDIUI
HADRIANIABNEPOTI
DIUITRAIANI[..]RT[.]
ETDIUINERUE
ADNEPOTI
15MAURELLIOANTONINO
PIOFELICIAUGPARTH
MAXBRYTMAXG[.]RM
MAXPONTIFICMAX
TRIBPOTXVIIII
20IMPIIIICOSIIIIPP
PROCOS
vacat
MILNLVII
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia,
greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of
deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia
and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius 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 57.
Bibliography: AE, 1915.93; Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, 651; Aurigemma, 1925b, 137 ff., fig. 4; listed, Goodchild, 1948, 14, page 15; IRT, 1952, 940, not transcribed, whence IRT, 2009, 940, whence EDH 059778; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 509)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 364)
