Description:
Columnar milestone, broken in two pieces in antiquity. (h:
1.53 x diam.:
0.32)
Text: Inscribed within a recessed die
(w:
0.30 x h:
0.40).
Letters: 0.03.
Date: CE 275 (titulature)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area:
Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, 125km from Tripoli.
Found with 942.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To the perpetual] emperor, the unconquered emperor, the strongest emperor, Lucius Domitius Aurellianus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Germany, greatest victor in Carpia, consul three times, father of the country, proconsul. Milestone eighty-two.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 40, page 29; IRT, 1952, 943, whence IRT, 2009, 943, whence EDH 059781; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 357 Leica)