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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0961. Milestone. Caracalla.

Description: A columnar milestone of limestone: h: 2.00 x diam.: 0.38
Text: Inscribed on the shaft, which is very damaged.
Letters: 0.03

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Central Road to the Fezzan: Mizda, in the Italian Fort.
Original location: Unknown milestation; probably from the Central Road) but possibly from the Upper Sofeggin Road.
Last recorded location: Mizdah, residency, garden (1947)

Interpretive

( vac. ) Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) ( vac. )
diui Septim[i Seueri]
Pii Arabici A[diabenici]
( vac. ) Par[thi]ci max(imi) ( vac. )
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
5[--- H]adria[ni abnepoti]
diui Traian[i Parthici]
et diui Nerue ad-
( vac. ) nepoti ( vac. )
[ M(arco) Aure]lio Anto-
10[nino Pio Felici]
[Aug(usto) Par]thico [max(imo)]
[Brittani]co max(imo)
[Ger]manico max(imo) pont-
[ifici] max(imo) tribunicie
15[potest]atis XVIIII imp(eratori) III
[co(n)s(uli)] IIII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
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Diplomatic

      IMPCAES      
DIUISEPTIM[.......]
PIIARABICIA[.........]
      PAR[...]CIMAX      
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
5[---.]ADRIA[..........]
DIUITRAIAN[.........]
ETDIUINERUEAD
      NEPOTI      
[.....]LIOANTO
10[.............]
[......]THICO[...]
[........]COMAX
[...]MANICOMAXPONT
[.....]MAXTRIBUNICIE
15[......]ATISXVIIIIIMPIII
[...]IIIIPPPROCOS
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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, [ . . . ] Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius 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. [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 961, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 961; Goodchild, 1948, 29, page 20 whence EDH 059799; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 354 Leica)


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