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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0958. Milestone. Mile CXIV?

Description: Lower part of a columnar milestone of limestone: h: 0.54 x diam.: 0.40
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.04-0.05

Date: The form of the column suggests Caracalla, CE 216: GODOT (context)

Findspot: Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: Mizda el-Otia (the lower village); found near the Sunni Zavia; found with 959.
Original location: Unknown: possibly from a mile-station, perhaps the terminal one, in the Wadi Sofeggin.
Last recorded location: Mizdah, residency (1947)

Interpretive

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proconsul
( vac. ) mil(iarium) ( vac. )

Diplomatic

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PROCONSUL
      MIL      

1: proconsuli Goodchild, 1948

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] proconsul. Milestone [---]

Commentary

There is no mileage number

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 26, page 19; IRT, 1952, 958, whence IRT, 2009, 958, whence EDH 059796; revsised Bartoccini, 1948, 154.

Images

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