Description: Lower part of a
columnar milestone of limestone (h:
1.30 x diam.:
0.37).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: 0.03-0.04
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn:
area of Zintan to Mizda:
Found in the bed of the wadi near Chescem Sidra,
South of Caf el-Mechreg, 24 km. from Gasr Uames and 34 km. from Mizda by the Sofeggin route. A second column was found in
the same location.
Original location: Findspot: Upper Sofeggin Road
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] 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 49.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 968, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 968; Goodchild, 1948, 34 page 23, whence EDH 059806; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR