Description: Upper part of a
columnar milestone (w:
0.37 x h:
0.82 x d:
0.28.)
Text: Inscribed on a flattened face.
Letters: Irregular 0.04
Date: 238-244 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area:
Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, 125km from Tripoli. Found about 50 m.
south of 941, q.v.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus. Milestone eighty-two.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 41, page 29; IRT, 1952, 942, whence IRT, 2009, 942, whence EDH 059780; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 358 Leica)