Description:
Columnar milestone of limestone (h:
2.20 x diam.:
0.40).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.04-0.05
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
Found close to a marabout 1km East of Gasr Uames, in the area of Zintan to Mizda. There are two bases in situ.
Original location: Findspot:
Upper Sofeggin Road
Last recorded location:
Fndspot
Interpretive
( vac. ) Imp(eratori) ( vac. )
Caes(ari) diui Sep-
[ti]mi Seueri Pii
[Ara]bici Adiabe-
5nici Parthi-
ci maximi Brit-
tanici maximi
fil(io), diui Antoni-
ni Pii Germani-
10ci Sarmatici
nepoti d[iui Anto-]
[nin]i [Pii pronep-]
[oti diui Ha]dri
[ani] abnepoti
15diui Traiani Par-
thici et diui Ner-
uae adnepoti
M(arco) Aurelio Anto-
[nino] Pio Felici
20 Aug(usto) Parthico
maximo Brit-
tanico [maxi-]
mo Germani-
co maximo pon-
25[tifici ma]ximo-
tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XIX imp(eratori)
III co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae)
( vac. ) proco(n)s(uli) ( vac. )
[mil(iarium)] XXXII[I?]
Diplomatic
IMP
CAESDIUISEP
[..]MISEUERIPII
[...]BICIADIABE
5NICIPARTHI
CIMAXIMIBRIT
TANICIMAXIMI
FILDIUIANTONI
NIPIIGERMANI
10CISARMATICI
NEPOTID[.......-]
[...]I[.........-]
[.........]DRI
[...]ABNEPOTI
15DIUITRAIANIPAR
THICIETDIUINER
UAEADNEPOTI
MAURELIOANTO
[....]PIOFELICI
20AUGPARTHICO
MAXIMOBRIT
TANICO[....-]
MOGERMANI
COMAXIMOPON
25[........]XIMO
TRPOTXIXIMP
IIICOSIIIIPP
PROCOS
[...]XXXII[.]
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 32 (?33).
Bibliography: Corò, 1937, 72 (no transcription); IRT, 1952, 964, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 964; Goodchild, 1948, 32, page 22, whence EDH 059802; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
