Description: Fragment of a columnar milestone of limestone: h:
0.44 x diam.:
0.40
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.03
Date: CE 216: GODOT (context)
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan:
Mizda, reused ina wall of the central courtyard of the Italian Fort.
Original location: Unknown milestation; probably from the Central Road) but
possibly from the Upper Sofeggin Road.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1947).
Interpretive
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Arabici [Adiabenici Par-]
thici max(imi) Bri[ttanici]
max(imi) filio diui [M(arci) Anto-]
nini Pii Germ[anici Sar-]
5matici nepoti di[ui Antoni-]
ni Pii pronepoti [diui Hadri-]
ani abne[poti diui Traiani]
Parthici et diui Ner[uae adne-]
( vac. ) poti ( vac. )
10M(arco) Aurelio Anto[nino---]
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Diplomatic
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ARABICI[.............-]
THICIMAXBRI[.......]
MAXFILIODIUI[.....-]
NINIPIIGERM[........-]
5MATICINEPOTIDI[........-]
NIPIIPRONEPOTI[.........-]
ANIABNE[...............]
PARTHICIETDIUINER[.......-]
POTI
10MAURELIOANTO[....---]
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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 Aurelius Antoninus [ . . .
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 960, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 960; Goodchild, 1948, 28, page 20, whence EDH 059798; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.;
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. ETAL)
