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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0953. Milestone. Mile C[VI]?: Aurelian.

Description: Columnar milestone of limestone cut down to an oval: h: 1.80 x diam.: 0.30 0.20), broken in four pieces
Text: Inscribed on the flat face.
Letters: Very irregular and lightly cut, 0.03-0.04.

Date: CE 271 (titulature)

Findspot: Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: found in 1927 by Bartolan 161km from Tripoli about 100 m. north of the crossing of the Wadi Lella; Found with 952.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Mizdah, residency (1947)

Interpretive

Imp(erator) Cae-
s(ar) L(ucius) D<o>mit-
ius Aure-
lianus inu-
5ictus P(ius) F(elix) A-
ug(ustus) ponti-
f(ex) max(imus) tri-
b(unicia) pot(estate) ỊỊ
mil(iarium)
10[---]

Diplomatic

IMPCAE
SLDMIT
IUSAURE
LIANUSINU
5ICTUSPFA
UGPONTI
FMAXTRI
BPOT..
MIL
10.[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Emperor Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus unconquered, Pius, Felix Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the second time. Milestone one hundred (perhaps more).

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 21, page 18; IRT, 1952, 953, whence IRT, 2009, 953, whence EDH 059791; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 356)