Description: Two pieces of columnar milestone of pinkish limestone cut to form and oval: h:
1.22 x diam.:
0.27-0.30
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Line 1, 0.04, lines 2 following 0.03
Date: CE 216: GODOT (context)
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) ( vac. )
Caes(ari) diui Sep-
timi Seueri Pii
Arabici Adia-
5benici Parthi-
ci maximi Brit-
tanici maximi
[filio] diui Anto-
[nini Pii] Germa-
10nici [Sarmati-]
ci nepoti diui
Antonini Pii pro-
nepoti diui Ha-
driani abnepo-
15[ti d]iui [Traiani]
Parth[ici et diui]
Neru[ae ad]nepoti
M(arco) Aurelio [Anto]ni-
no Pio [Felici] Aug(usto)
20Parthico maximo
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Diplomatic
IMP
CAESDIUISEP
TIMISEUERIPII
ARABICIADIA
5BENICIPARTHI
CIMAXIMIBRIT
TANICIMAXIMI
[.....]DIUIANTO
[.......]GERMA
10NICI[.......-]
CINEPOTIDIUI
ANTONINIPIIPRO
NEPOTIDIUIHA
DRIANIABNEPO
15[...]IUI[.......]
PARTH[.........]
NERU[....]NEPOTI
MAURELIO[....]NI
NOPIO[......]AUG
20PARTHICOMAXIMO
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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 Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, [ . . .
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 962, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 962; Goodchild, 1948, 30, page 20, whence EDH 059800; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 355 Leica)
