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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0956. Milestone. Mile CVIII(?). Gallienus.

Description: Columnar milestone of limestone cut down to create a rectangular section: tapering from top to base, w: 0.30-0.27 x h: 1.70 x d: 0.30-0.20
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.03.

Date: CE 262 (titulature)

Findspot: Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: 164km from Tripoli, about 150 m. west of the modern road and close to the foothills, near Mizda; found with 955.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Mizdah, residency (1947)

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari)
P(ublio) Licinio
Egnatio
Gallienio
5( vac. ) inuicto ( vac. )
Pio Fel(ici) Aug(usto)
pont(ifici) max(imo)
P̣ar(thico) m[ax(imo)] Ger(manico)
t(ribunicia) p(otestate) X co(n)s(uli)
10 Vp(atri) p(atriae) proc-
ons(uli) ( vac. )
( vac. ) mil(iarium) ( vac. )

Diplomatic

IMPCAES
PLICINIO
EGNATIO
GALLIENIO
5      INUICTO      
PIOFELAUG
PONTMAX
.ARM[..]GER
TPXCOS
10VPPPROC
ONS      
      MIL      

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus, unconquered, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Germany, holding tribunician power for the tenth time, consul for the fifth, father of the country, proconsul Milestone [one hundred and eight?].

Commentary

There is no mileage number

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 24, page 18; IRT, 1952, 956, whence IRT, 2009, 956, whence EDH 059794; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 344)


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