Description:
Columnar milestone of limestone (h:
2.20 x diam.:
0.40).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Line 1, 0.07; remainder, 0.04-0.05
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda: a little south of the
Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, 125km from Tripoli,
a few yards West of the modern road; found about 50 m. north of 942, q.v.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot, with two bases in situ.
Interpretive
( vac. ) Imp(eratori) ( vac. )
Caes(ari) diui Septi-
mi Seueri Pii Ara-
bici Adiabenici Pa-
5rthici maximi Bri-
tanici maximi filio
diui Antonini Pii
Germanici Sar-
matici nepoti di-
10ui Antonini Pii
( vac. ) pronepoti diui ( vac. )
( vac. ) Hadriani ab - ( vac. )
( vac. ) nepoti diui ( vac. )
Traiani Parthici
15 et diui Neruae ad-
( vac. ) nepoti ( vac. )
M(arco) Aurellio Antonino
Pio Felici Aug(usto) Parthi-
co maximo Britani-
20co maximo Germani-
co maximo pontifici
maximo tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XVIIII
imp(eratori) III co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae) pro
( vac. ) co(n)s(uli) ( vac. )
25 mil(iarium) n(umero) LXXXII
Diplomatic
IMP
CAESDIUISEPTI
MISEUERIPIIARA
BICIADIABENICIPA
5RTHICIMAXIMIBRI
TANICIMAXIMIFILIO
DIUIANTONINIPII
GERMANICISAR
MATICINEPOTIDI
10UIANTONINIPII
PRONEPOTIDIUI
HADRIANIAB-
NEPOTIDIUI
TRAIANIPARTHICI
15ETDIUINERUAEAD
NEPOTI
MAURELLIOANTONINO
PIOFELICIAUGPARTHI
COMAXIMOBRITANI
20COMAXIMOGERMANI
COMAXIMOPONTIFICI
MAXIMOTRPOTXVIIII
IMPIIICOSIIIIPPPRO
COS
25MILNLXXXII
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
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 eighty-two.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 16, page 16; IRT, 1952, 941, whence IRT, 2009, 941, whence EDH 059779; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 310)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 364)
