Description: Columnar milestone of limestone, in two pieces: h:
2.00 x diam.:
0.37-0.40
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.05, remainder 0.04
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area:
167.5 km from Tripoli. Found about 7 km. North of Mizda, at a point where the modern road
is flanked on the East by a small hillock (Chormet Gherian)
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Mizdah, residency (1947)
Interpretive
( vac. ) Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) ( vac. )
diui Septimi Seu-
eri Pii Arabici Adi-
abenici Parthi-
5ci max(imi) Brittanici
max(imi) filio diui M(arci) An-
tonini Pii Germani-
ci Sarmatici n[epo-]
ti diui Antoni[ni Pii]
10pronepoti diui Had-
riani abnepoti diui
Traiani Parthici et diui
Neruae adnepoti
M(arco) Aurelio Anto-
15nino Pio Felici Aug(usto)
[Parthico max(imo) Britt-]
anico ma[x](imo) [Germani-]
[co] max(imo) pontifici
max(imo) tribunicie pot-
20estatis XVIIII imp(eratori) III co(n)s(uli)
IIII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
( vac. ) mil(iarium) ( vac. )
Diplomatic
IMPCAES
DIUISEPTIMISEU
ERIPIIARABICIADI
ABENICIPARTHI
5CIMAXBRITTANICI
MAXFILIODIUIMAN
TONINIPIIGERMANI
CISARMATICIN[...-]
TIDIUIANTONI[.....]
10PRONEPOTIDIUIHAD
RIANIABNEPOTIDIUI
TRAIANIPARTHICIETDIUI
NERUAEADNEPOTI
MAURELIOANTO
15NINOPIOFELICIAUG
[................-]
ANICOMA[........-]
[..]MAXPONTIFICI
MAXTRIBUNICIEPOT
20ESTATISXVIIIIIMPIIICOS
IIIIPPPROCOS
MIL
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia,
greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius , victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of
deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia
and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, 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.
Bibliography: Upper part Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1906, 89 ft, whence Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, 651 ; IRT, 1952, 957, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 957; complete monument, Goodchild, 1948, 25, page 19, whence EDH 059795, Bartoccini, 1948, 154;
Images
None available (2021).
