Description: Fragment of a rectangular stele milestone of limestone:
h:
0.45.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Very irregular: 0.025-0.035
Date: Probably CE 237. (reign)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area:
2 km. south of Wadi Gani, on the West
verge of the modern road, with 945 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:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . road ] disrupted by long-standing damage, and rebuilt a way along it for travellers, by their untiring providence. Milestone 85.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 19, page 17, whence EDH 059784; IRT, 1952, 946.without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 946; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR