Description: Lower part of a columnar milestone of limestone with the lower part trimmed to fit into the base:
h:
0.95 x diam.:
0.35.
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.04-0.05
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area:
2 km. south of Wadi Gani, on the West
verge of the modern road, with 946 and 947.
No bases are visible, and the modern road probably passes over the actual site of the mile-station.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Bartoccini recorded 5 bases in situ here; these were no longer visible in 1947.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] 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 85.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 945, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 945 Goodchild, 1948, 18, page 17, whence ,Bartoccini, 1948, 153-4 EDH 059783; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.;
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53.V.13)